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Re: greetings from 1995 (4.00 / 2)

I remember in the late 90's most of the state of Minnesota was off the internet for a few days when a homeless guy started a fire under a bridge near downtown and burned the relevant cables in the process. That's all it took. Backbone links aren't particularly redundant as you just discovered.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Fri Feb 1st, 2008 at 01:18:01 PM EST

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Also in the late 90's a coworker of mine got into an argument on IRC and decided to ping flood his adversary's IP address. He was very successful, he managed to cut off a whole European country..

(He did not work at our workplace for long)

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

by tzt (tztmail at gmail dot com) on Sat Feb 2nd, 2008 at 08:14:28 PM EST
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