[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Wait a minute isn’t tomorrow suppose to be to EBS TEST or was that today? Imagine tho...no cell phones no cash registers/bank machines working...

Didn’t blackberries all go out last month? Anyone know why?

[buccaneer81]

I was in Montreal caught in the middle of this:

March 13, 1989 Geomagnetic Storm

Seven months later I was in San Francisco for the Loma Prieta earthquake.

It was an interesting year for me.

[Uncle Ike]

Speaking of ‘outages’....

http://www.silicon.com/technology/networks/2011/11/07/global-outage-takes-down-sites-and-services-across-the-internet-39748193/

Global outage takes down sites and services across the internet
Router problem blamed...

By Nick Heath on 7 November 2011 17:37

NEWS

A global internet outage took down sites and services across the web on Monday.

The internet outage affected sites and services worldwide, including Time Warner Cable in the US and numerous ISPs in the UK

The outage began shortly after 14:00 GMT, and affected telco Time Warner Cable in the US and numerous ISPs in the UK, including Eclipse Internet and Easynet.

Several of the affected companies blamed the downtime on a problem with the firmware in Juniper Network routers.