When armed Israeli soldiers boarded a flotilla of civilian boats attempting to deliver food and medicine to Gaza on Wednesday night, millions of people around the world were glued to their screens, watching the events unfold in real time. In a small studio in Glasgow, two web developers worked frantically behind the scenes, updating vessel locations and uploading short clips as the tense scenes unfolded. As grainy footage from onboard cameras showed soldiers taking control of the boats, the flotilla’s website traffic exploded, hitting record numbers and turning the mission into a global digital event. “I have never seen numbers like that – not on a website I've ever made,” Lizzie Malcolm, co-director of Rectangle, a design and software development studio that helped track the b

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