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The best part of this is the irony that "Hayastan" means Armenia in Armenian. The lady named Armenia killed the whole Internet in Armenia.

ⁿᵒ -Armenia, March 28, 2011

A quote from her reads "I have no idea what the internet is" pure brilliance

As an Armenian viewer this is true and when I found out that a grandmother did I was laughing.

When the entirety of the nation of Armenia said, "no" I felt that

"Hayastan" means "Armenia" in Armenian, so in Armenian it was Armenia who cut off Armenia's internet. Trust nobody, not even Armenia.

Grandma: ooh cable *cuts* Entirety of Armenia: *Windows XP shutdown sound*

"What are you in here for" "Cutting Armenia's internet for 12 hours"

She was looking for copper and ended up getting arrested by one.

Kid 1: My grandma knows how to use the internet, unlike so many other grandmas >:) Kid 2: My grandma took down an entire country's internet...

Internet: deletes Grandma's cookies. Grandma: deletes Internet.

This is the longest 5 minute video I’ve ever seen

She achieved every grandma's ultimate goal.

I've never doubted my grandma's ability to download 32 viruses and send all her retirement money to a Nigerian prince but this is some next level shit

The entire country of Armenia went Expectation: NNNNOOOOOOOO!!! Narrator: "no..." 😂🤣

"I felt a great disturbance in the Internet … as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear some cable has been cut."

Grandma: *Breaks Armenias internet* *BREAKING NEWS:* *_CYBER BULLYING RATES IN ARMENIA DROP TO 0%_*

I'm your Georgian viewer, which means that your voice travelled through that cable just for me and like 4 other guys

4:13...I'm not expecting the "No" to be that small of a voice

"what's the moral of the story" don't go around with a shovel digging up pieces of land you don't own, and cutting underground mystery cables you most definitely don't own.

Grandma: “If you don’t get off your computer I’ll turn the internet off” Me: *doesn’t get off* Grandma:

Moral of this story: There is no copper in fiber-optic cables.

Copper cabling theft in the last years is sadly becoming "a thing" here in Rio de Janeiro, and I don't mean scavenging old stuff on the countryside but some people actually cutting away good chunks of perfectly normal/active/working cables from main bridges and tunnels (somewhat easier and more discrete than climbing up electrical poles) to be sold as scrap. Whole neighborhoods end up regularly without telephone/cable tv and even mains power for days because of said practices... crazy times.

Ways to turn off the internet: Internet Settings, Disconnect: smart Unplugging the entire computer: more smarter Disabling your internet connection: big brain Unplugging the entire internet wire: mega brain

"Hospitals couldn't download patient files" wasn't a problem, since Armenia has a high tech system of writing things down on some paper.

"Just pause it!" "I CAN'T GRANDMA, IT'S A MULTIPLAYER GAME!!" *"not anymore."*

4:14 Do not use your headphones and do turn down the volume. That Armenian NO was the loudest shout of panic that I have heard in my entire life.

this person literally named "armenia" in armenian

Funfact. That grandma's name - Hayastan - means "Armenia" in Armenian. Do I see some kind of coincidence?

When your grandparents are tired of blaming cell phones so they sabotage the entire internet instead.

Moral of the story:Always turn off your multiplayer game in time so your grandma doesnt turn off the internet.

The moment you realise "Hayastan" means "Armenia" in Armenian.

everybody gangsta until Grandma cuts internet.

I’m from Armenia, and was planning to sue my ip when they told me that the internet cable was damaged by 75 years old woman

No one: Random Armenian grandmother: "so anyway, I started cutting"

"this video was made possible by curiosity" nah i think the grandma had a big role in it

This happens all the time to me but instead of an old lady breaking my internet it's [Insert your country's hated internet provider].

Imagine if the Internet goes down, you think it's just you, but everyone in your neighborhood is. But not just the neighborhood, your city. And then you realize almost all of your country is without Internet, because a grandma cut an underground cord.

0:40 The territory of Mtskheta and "Great Mtskheta" was inhabited in the Early and Middle Bronze Age (III-II millennium BC). This city is one of the oldest

Just wanted to say I am glad this channel exists. I love Wendover's content but this is so quick and light hearted great for at work time fillers or just eating lunch

Funnily, her name is Armenian and her first name means “Armenia” in Armenian. 😀😂

Babushka: “Get off the computer” Me: “Wait give me 5 minutes to finish up” Babushka:

People of Armenia are gonna be mad if this again happens in 2020

1:04 "The village Armazi, not the beautfiul-geological-feature Armazi"

The fact that Shakarian just cut a random cable she found next to the train tracks was just asking for trouble. Even if it did contain copper. Like what if it had to do with the train control jamming the entire train line or causing accidents? What if it was high voltage and would've killed her and/or cut power to somewhere important? What if it was rule of thirds? Honestly, she was lucky it was just an internet cable.

Lives in Georgia but has the most Armenian name ever. "Hayastan" literally means Armenia, and anything ending in "-ian" is usually Armenian (Kardashian).

How many 6 year olds in Armenia didn’t submit their chess homework on time because of it?

When I was attending Humboldt State we had a similar problem. The internet would just stop working all across the county. A few hours to a few days later it would be up and running only for it to happen again and again for weeks. Eventually they caught the guy doing it. He was a disgruntled former employee who used to work on the fiber optic cords and he would randomly go out and snip the lines as a sort of “take that” to the company (and everyone else). I’m not sure how much they fined him, but I do know he is serving some serious jail time.

"This must have some copper in here" Armenia: *B R U H*

Correction at 1:56: Tbps actually stands for terabits instead of Terabytes, internet providers measure speed in megabits, gigabits, etc.

I love how this was just one, drawn out, streaming app ad

Yes, it's great that there are two Georgias and two Vermonts, but I wanna know about the grandma.

I did something like that when I was kid. I often helped my mom with gardening, and I remember seeing what looked like a vine going up our house. I tried to pull it down but I couldn't. Decided to cut it and saw it was metal inside. Pretended nothing happened and about 5 minutes later my parents were complaining that the TV doesn't work.

ME: gets excited seeing his country’s name in the headline VIDEO: 80% is about Georgia

4:14 That made me laugh my ass off for some reason..

4:31 why do Armenian hospktals have patient files on the internet? In Austria they are on the intranet, because putting them on thevinternet doesn't make sense because they are only accessible for the hospital of the patient because sharing them would be illegal anyway because of data protection.

apolgy for bad english it is my first languagen’t where were you when armenia internet die i was on comupter when website went off "404 armenia internet is kil” “no”

You should create a video about that time Switzerland accidentally invaded Lichtenstein, twice!

When I was in college, this event was mentioned in Networking subject book. I could understand the whole story now.

Grandma has more power than you think.

"The Black Sea, the world's greatest kidney-shaped body of water" Lake Michigan: ಠ_ಠ

What I would like to know, is how did they find out that she was the one that did it.

That railway + cable is absolutely brilliant wow

I'm looking forward to the movie version of this story :-D

wait they arrested this grandma? I need more info on what happened after

Fun fact: her name is Armenian (so she is most likely too) and her first name in Armenian literally means "Armenia" (Hayastan).

I just watched an add that has a video in it.

It's pretty ridiculous that the cable was shallow enough to where it could be dug up by 1 person with a shovel and that it was thin enough to where it could be cut without power tools.

Imagine spelling Tbilisi wrong, not once, but *twice*

Internet: *exists* Grandma: *I am going to end this man's whole career*

Had this happen once in Houghton Michigan in 2006 or so - construction crew cut a cable and the entire region had no communications for days. No internet, no way to process credit cards, etc.

This Old lady: **Cuts the Cable for Copper** Armenia Internet: Adiós Police: Bonjour

1:55 it's terabits and not terabytes. If it is written with lower case b it's bits and if with capital B then it's bytes. So in this case as 8 bits are in 1 byte; the transfer speed would be: 1,575 TBps.

Nobody: Babushka: Im going to do whats called a anti-gamer move

Moral of the story: Make sure you bury important cables in impenetrable ducting

I lived in tbilisi and the railway is very pog atm when trying to to to batumi, a place you haven’t talked about and i gotta tell you, they got a hella nice train, with 2 floors

me: grandma, I'm not hungry. I'm playing with my online friends! grandma: *observe*

Nobody: Armenia on March 28, 2011: *_Windows XP shutdown sound_*

2:57 Railway telecom seems to also make Raycon earpods lol ( both logos are quite similar )

*insert your bad internet connection servers provided here* It takes like an hour... Me: **Laughs in Venezuela and 100kbps**

are we going to question that this woman’s name deadass translates to “Armenia” ??

Just to point to it: I'm happy that the cable wasn't a electric one. You never cut a random cable without knowing something about it! I'm kind of relieved for Hayastan Shakarian. Also - there is something wrong when you have to dig up cables to get a living.

I've lived in a developing country where the theft of telecommunications copper was a real problem. Usually after heavy rains which exposed conduit. I recall phone and internet being out in an area for almost two months due to about a meter of conduit encased copper telecoms cable being cut and removed by some folks savaging copper.

When i worked for a local TelCo in the US doing underground fiber, we were warned to stay way far away from other fiber lines. Was told some of the bigger ones cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1M USD per hour for being down. And it takes a minute per fiber ( some have 200+) to splice. not counting finding the damage, dig time and time to move equipment to the site.

“Hayastan” literally means “Armenia” in Armenian... hmmm 🤔😂

"they couldn't even go on Twitter to complain" 😂

Gotta say, that lake looks more like a Victory I Class Star Destroyer to me.

Grandma: "Look they made a movie about The Smurfs grown up" Me: That's Avatar.

Just wanted to point out that the tram at 1:17 is the one in my city, Angers on Foch Boulevard. The orange and black restaurant is called Joe Carpa. It’s pretty good too.

0:57 “Hey I’m Bob from I Like To Make Stuff”

plot twist: the grandma cut the cable so half as interesting would make a video about it and talk about their sponsor curiosity stream which has nebula which is her favorite

Armenia: *_From now on, minion memes will be hereby prohibited on Armenian soil!_* Hayastan Shakarian:

Who would win? An entire country's internet connection OR One snappy boomer.

I live in Georgia and I shut down my neighborhood’s internet once because the cable going to my comcast modem came loose

Ive lost track how many times this popped ontop in my recommended

1:56 - 12.6 Terabits of data, equivalent to 1.575 Terabytes.

"internet is kil" "no"

I love the thought that when he searched “Australia’s most hated internet provider” Telstra came up

That collective cry, “noo” hahaha