"Disconnected from the real Internet, the network is limited, local and built with equipment commercially available around the world, with no help from any outside government" "estimated it costs about #$200 to equip a group of computers with the antennas and cables needed to become a new node" " #SNet started as a handful of connected users around 2001 and stayed that way for a decade. More than 9,000 computers have connected over the past 5 years, and about 2,000 users connect on an average day." (from:
Cuban youth build secret computer network despite WI-FI ban http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_SECRET_NETWORK, via @kerskine)