RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: At least eight ships are heading toward Taiwan Strait to try to reconnect underwater cables severed by an earthquake. The damaged cables have cut off from the rest of the world Internet users in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including NPR's Louisa Lim.</s>LOUISA LIM: Louisa Lim, NPR News, Shanghai.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
On Tuesday, an earthquake off the coast of Taiwan damaged undersea fiber optic cables, causing widespread Internet and phone outages. Lack of access to the Web has forced people in China to contemplate what life was like before global connectivity.