11-7-11: The Day the Internet Died... for 30 seconds...

[Groogrux]

http://www.businessinsider.com/weird-the-internet-just-died-for-about-30-seconds-around-the-country-2011-11

Updated: it looks like it is Time Warner's fault — the company said it experienced a "large but brief Internet outage."
We're getting reports that the Internet — yes, the Internet — died for a brief period of time across the country.
We have heard reports that the Internet went out in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Raleigh, N.C., Dallas, several cities in the Midwestern United States and New York so far.
One customer said he was disconnected during the course of a phone call with Time Warner and called back to hear an odd message stating calls could not be completed at the time.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/weird-the-internet-just-died-for-about-30-seconds-around-the-country-2011-11#ixzz1d2aVX3pp

[fistfulofmetal]

this caused a pretty a large number of our hosted application clients to not be able to access their hosted apps for around 3 hours. it caused a major routing issue between our ISP and their ISP.

[Brehvolution]

Yep, people here were dumfounded not being able to workget online.

[drew]

They needed to test out their internet kill switch 

fixed

[Great Rumbler]

Nobama's gonna turn off the internet! Vote Ron Paul.