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Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40%
cold fjord writes "Is 40% anything to worry about? Sky News reports, 'Worldwide internet traffic plunged by around 40% as Google services suffered a complete black-out, according to web analytics experts. The tech company said all of its services from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube to Google Drive went down for between one and five minutes last night. The reason for the outage is not yet known, and Google refused to provide any further information when contacted by Sky News Online. According to web analytics firm GoSquared, global internet traffic fell by around 40% during the black-out, reflecting Google's massive grip on the web. "That's huge," said GoSquared developer Simon Tabor. "As internet users, our reliance on Google.com being up is huge."'
I couldn't imagine all of those people, nagging, moaning. "mommmm, the internet isn't working", "hey son, every time I try to open facebook it does nothing, is it working?"
OH GOD MAKE IT STOP.
Even after telling those people, they still never learn.
Even after saying "HEY LOOK, SEE THAT THING THAT POPS UP WHEN YOU TYPE FACEBOOK, THE ONE CALLED FACEBOOK.COM? CLICK THAT"
Even after saying "click that tile that says facebook"
Even after setting the homepage to facebook, they still find some way to complain.
I. Hate. People.
Sometimes I really do wish there was an internet licence. Obviously only officially since you could never police something like that easily.
If it stopped even a fifth of this, it would be worth it.
It isn't like they just lack some knowledge, they are genuinely thick. I feel bad for them for being shafted by the education system, nobody should be that thick, nobody, unless they had some severe case of mental illness.
Maybe "the general public" have a mental illness?! Wait, no, best not let them get classed as that, they will want pills to make it better. We are already wasting loads of money on sugar pills for retards.