But yeah, the population of Egypt is mostly too young to remember a time before Mubarak, so it was a big deal when he left office, regardless of how any one person may have felt about the loss.
And the miniaturized electronics which helped us win the space race and close the missile gap have made it difficult, at best, to keep the lid on. Those poor, misunderstood despots... when the USSR fell apart, it was due to an attempted coup. Boris Yeltsin and others communicated with the outside world via the fax machines, which is what they had, and it was newly ubiquitous technology. Saved their bacon.
A few years ago these people were building satellite dishes out of soda cans and now they hold the world in their hands.