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News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic
miller60 writes "Major news sites struggled to remain online yesterday evening as news of Michael Jackson's death triggered huge waves of Internet traffic. TMZ.com broke the news and was quickly overwhelmed, while Twitter turned off features to handle its load. They weren't alone. Keynote Systems reports that ABC, AOL, CBS, CNN Money, MSNBC, NBC, and Yahoo! News all experienced performance problems between 6:15 and 9 pm Eastern time, when the average availability of news sites tracked by Keynote dropped from almost 100% to 86%. The cloud computing crowd immediately jumped on the traffic jams to argue their case. 'Not have a cloud bursting strategy in the age of cloud computing isn't just wrong — it's idiotic,' wrote one cloud blogger."
Obviously the current young generation has no idea the impact MJ had on the world.
Like what? The Moonwalk? Popularizing the wearing of a single white sequined glove and red multi-zippered leather jackets? A resurgence in the popularity of Vincent Price? Making Quincy Jones even more richer and more obnoxious than he already was? Giving Eddie Van Halen bragging rights for the one of the longest running #1 songs ever?
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Oh screw off, culture and the arts are an important part of defining "who we are" as a race. Without our movies, music, paintings and books we would completely loose our sense of who we are, and where we've been. (books in particular, do you really think the world would not be negatively effected if all of the classics simply ceased to exist over night?)
Maybe all those classics majors would get out there and ya know... do something useful?