How The US Government Signed Back Onto The Internet
Oct 17, 2013, 19:22 IST
The third longest federal government shutdown in history ended Wednesday night after 16 days. And with its reopening, the government signed back on to the Internet.
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Many government sites went offline at the advent of the shutdown. On Thursday, they came back - and most marked the occasion on Twitter:
Here's Secretary of Education Arne Duncan:
And NASA also posted a photo to Instagram. It's from astronaut Mike Hopkins, who on Oct. 9 took a picture of the Northern Lights aboard the International Space Station:
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