Internet traffic begins to bypass the U.S

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 8, 2008 4:15 PM EDT
C-Net News; By John Markoff
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Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network's first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States. Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.

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