As another year draws to a close, we look back on the IT-related comments that stuck with us.

Local Internet access in Tripoli was strangely restored for a while late Saturday local time after months of disruption, according to reports on Twitter, as rebels closed in on the capital city of Libya. But it was down again for most of the city by Sunday.

The Internet in Syria was back on Saturday, a day after it was reported that two-thirds of Syrian networks had been cut off from the rest of the world in the wake of civil unrest in the country.

As it wages an escalating civil war, Libya has once again cut Internet service in and out of the country.

With violence escalating, Libya is pulling the plug on its Internet connection.