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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1346)6/29/2000 12:08:00 AM
From: KeepItSimple  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
>what's the deal with yahoo.com today? anyone having trouble picking
>it up? ...other than me that is.

Some welders burned through a giant trunk line doing constuction in san francisco yesterday.. A bunch of fiber was severed, along with around 70,000 twisted copper pairs. (they showed a picture of it on the local news)

Places up and down the peninsula in silicon valley were/are off the grid, still.

They say the internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack? What a load of utter crap. The internet can't even withstand a careless construction worker with a backhoe.