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The Teenagers Who Wired Romania

Teens’ DIY internet in Bucharest grows into a network rivalling telcoms companies.

Bucharest, 2000. A group of teenagers begin a chaotic DIY project - stringing cables between apartment blocks to share a single internet connection. What starts as a scrappy workaround grows into something far bigger: a sprawling, improvised network that catches the attention of telecom giants. Told by those who built it, this is the extraordinary story of how a homemade system became the backbone of a city - a reflection of what the internet was meant to be… and what it became.

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27 minutes

On radio

Thu 6 Aug 202601:32GMT

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  • Thu 6 Aug 202601:32GMT
  • Thu 6 Aug 202608:32GMT
  • Thu 6 Aug 202619:06GMT