half the internet is down

[acealive1]

anyone else having problems. doesn't appear to be any certain sites that are related, just odd that sites like facebook and espn are down but yahoo is still up

[darth los]

i haven't noticed anything. Oh, my god. My porn sites! Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

[acealive1]

i haven't noticed anything. Oh, my god. My porn sites! Nooooooooooooooooooooo! ---------- Post added at 08:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:00 PM ---------- its going on again............weird shit

[wayzim]

anyone else having problems. doesn't appear to be any certain sites that are related, just odd that sites like facebook and espn are down but yahoo is still up Damn you Prince! Noooooooo. Wayne Z

[darth los]

Damn you Prince! Noooooooo. Wayne Z ---------- Post added at 08:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:00 PM ---------- its going on again............weird shit lol guys i'm glad everything is ok but it got me to thinking that we're so dependent on the internet that if it were to go down we'd be in real trouble. I don't know how i would get through the workday.

[JDFP]

lol guys i'm glad everything is ok but it got me to thinking that we're so dependent on the internet that if it were to go down we'd be in real trouble. I don't know how i would get through the workday. Can you believe that from around 1953 - 1993 people got by on just sitting on the couch watching television and actually had to rely on things like newspapers, books, magazines, and other forms of communication instead of the net? The horror that must have been! Now instead of wasting time with these things we just collectively waste time on the 'net instead. j.p.

[darth los]

Can you believe that from around 1953 - 1993 people got by on just sitting on the couch watching television and actually had to rely on things like newspapers, books, magazines, and other forms of communication instead of the net? The horror that must have been! Now instead of wasting time with these things we just collectively waste time on the 'net instead. j.p. imo, it's definitely an upgrade. None of that ink and stuff on your hands. Everything you ever wanted to know, the entirety of amassed human knowledge is basically at your fingertips 24 hours a day. There's no excuse for not knowing anything anymore. It's really a miracle. It makes what you said look like the stone ages.

[JDFP]

imo, it's definitely an upgrade. None of that ink and stuff on your hands. Everything you ever wanted to know, the entirety of amassed human knowledge is basically at your fingertips 24 hours a day. There's no excuse for not knowing anything anymore. It's really a miracle. It makes what you said look like the stone ages. I dunno man, I agree with you that it's extremely convenient to have the world at your fingertips (face it, you could find just about any major movie made online to watch at any time, communicate with people around the world at any time, have instant access to knowledge, etc.) I also wonder if it's necessarily for the best in the long run to have this convenience for society/the world. It goes back to my ages old argument -- sometimes too much is just too much. The internet is a great convenience but a "miracle"? Eh, I'd call a miracle the cure for cancer -- not the internet. j.p.

[bassman]

Everything you ever wanted to know, the entirety of amassed human knowledge is basically at your fingertips 24 hours a day. Beautiful, isn't it? I'll often be working on the house and run into something I'm not sure how to fix. The wife gets all worried with "What are you going to do, call someone to fix it?!?". "Nope....Google, bitch".

[darth los]

Beautiful, isn't it? I'll often be working on the house and run into something I'm not sure how to fix. The wife gets all worried with "What are you going to do, call someone to fix it?!?". "Nope....Google, bitch". Exactly my point. You for some reason are having a dispute in a bar over Ted williams stats or what was it that started the hundred years war. Everybody calm down, pull out your smart phone and the matter will be settled in a couple of minutes. Sadly, google can't help me figure women out though. Now that would be a miracle JD! I dunno man, I agree with you that it's extremely convenient to have the world at your fingertips (face it, you could find just about any major movie made online to watch at any time, communicate with people around the world at any time, have instant access to knowledge, etc.) I also wonder if it's necessarily for the best in the long run to have this convenience for society/the world. It goes back to my ages old argument -- sometimes too much is just too much. The internet is a great convenience but a "miracle"? Eh, I'd call a miracle the cure for cancer -- not the internet. j.p. I agree up to the extent that technology has made the human race lazy and dumb. Self reliance is now a relic of the past. People will work only as hard as they have to. So if everything is mechanically done for them, they won't do what generations before them did. Remember in the 90's when you had everyone's number committed to memory? Wanna know why people can't readily give you even their own cell phone numbers nowdays? Because the machine does it for you. However, i have to disagree with you about the internet. We are at a point in history where the access we have to information is unparallel. I don't believe you can ever have enough information, it can never be a bad thing, imo. It's literally changed the game. In our fav subject, politics for example. Politicians would routinely lie about something they said or position they held 10-20 years ago and get away with it. They would tell a group of supporters one thing one night and different demographic something else at another different. The internet doesn't allow them to do that anymore. I can't remember where i read at this time but there was a stat that said the average "peasant" in midevil Europe would only come across the amount of information available in a single issue of time magazine! Can you believe that? Again, I'm not speaking in absolutes because i don't know every damn thing. It just seems as if it's a good thing to me.

[Danny]

"HALF THE INTERNET IS DOWN" ITT: people born before the 70's ended.

[LouCipherr]

If half the internet is down, that just means that work productivity will go up by 200%..

[JDFP]

Hey Los: My major issue with the internet is the self-reliance on it that so many people have. I remember back when I was in college from 2000 - 2004 there was a collective gasp as our professors at the college informed all the students that they could not use the internet for sources on any college paper requiring sources with exception to periodical resources such as the "New York Times Online" or other periodical sources online. Even to this day, my alma mater bans the internet for online sources except for periodicals (this includes wikipedia -- you may not cite from or use it as a source for papers). This is a college-wide decision that affects all students in all courses regardless of the course -- and I personally commend it. I remember laughing when I heard all the other students gasped as thinking: "Really? You rely on the internet to do all your thinking for you?" -- it just amazed me that so many people rely on it in such a way. Hey folks, go to the library -- do something called picking up a book or a newspaper (even though they, newspapers, are going bankrupt all through the country we still have them and they go back hundreds of years in some public libraries). Yes, there is more access available to knowledge through the internet than has ever been available before -- but I have to ask, what type of knowledge? Do you think the majority of people use the internet for valuable knowledge or for the latest update on pop-stars? Just because there is a greater access to knowledge doesn't mean people are more knowledgeable (or knowledgeable about stuff that matters) more than ever before in the history of the world. Schools are proof of this. You would think with all this ability for knowledge kids in America would be the most intelligent and articulated kids in the history of education simply because the knowledge is within anyone's grasp through the internet. However, we see the complete opposite taking place -- our children are becoming dumber and dumber (and dumberer ). I'd say this is due to a few causes -- people not going out in the world (public libraries for example) to attain knowledge. People not using the ability of the internet for the right purposes and instead wasting time on it (which I think is a major cause of it), and people saying to themselves: "Hey, I don't need to learn this -- if I ever need to know it I'll just look it up on the 'net." Anyway, just some food for thought... j.p.

[Wyldwraith]

I have to differ with you on this, Growing up during the 2400 BAUD modem era, followed/parallel by the BBS and America Online phenomena, I clearly remember the divide between the day I gained access to Netscape (my 1st true web browser), and the day before. Some of us ARE the exceptions which prove the rule. I read biographies/autobiographies of/by famous people, study significant world history as the mood takes me (I'm a bit biased toward Western civilization), research advances in the fields of astronomy, aeronautics, epidemiology & microbiology, and in my spare time I'm teaching myself a language or two via Rosetta. Of course all this is in between playing Starcraft II, perusing my favorite adult entertainment when the mood strikes, and discussing anything and everything with you good people. Other than taking tons of medication, sleeping, talking to the two friends who've stuck by me on the phone, and some interaction with my family, that's the sum total of my life, other than eating/drinking etc. The Internet IS a MIRACLE to a shut-in. NEVER DOUBT IT. I would've lost my mind and gone on a murder spree followed by suicide-by-cop long since without all that knowledge and entertainment to help occupy my mind and distract me from the horrific, ever-intensifying pain. Would a cure for the "chronically acute" (to coin an oxymoron) pain I suffer be MORE miraculous? Of course, but I'll take what I can get.

[acealive1]

Can you believe that from around 1953 - 1993 people got by on just sitting on the couch watching television and actually had to rely on things like newspapers, books, magazines, and other forms of communication instead of the net? The horror that must have been! Now instead of wasting time with these things we just collectively waste time on the 'net instead. j.p. yea i believe it, i was one of those people. still am. some people need the net, i can shut this monkey off and leave it off for days at a time.