Wonkette
MAYBE YOU’LL SEE THIS ON TWITTER: So, ha ha, about half the Internet is invisible to Verizon DSL customers today — including at your editor’s office, whoops. Try a proxy server if you can’t see your Favorite Websites. Weirdly enough, Verizon’s wireless broadband domain-name servers seem just fine, so your editor will just work on his teeny tiny mouse-sized HP mini until, uh, tomorrow. “It should resolve in approximately 24 hours,” the cheerful support person in India just told me. Hooray.
The Internet is secksist.
“Catastrophic” was the adjective used by my workplace to describe the outage.
Stay strong!
Looks like they just got this fixed. Finally I can get to my beloved Wonkette…
I think that nice, normal-looking young man with the Rivers Cuomo glasses and the blue company jacket who commands the vast Verizon network went insane with power and decided to plunge America into an electricity-deprived, Luddite hell.
That North Korean CLOWN is sending missiles up our intertubes.
I may never say this again, but thank Jeebus for Comcast! 7/8 NEVAH FORGET
Jesus fixed the internet with His magics! Praise be.
Those North Korean hackers are getting better all the time…
Today, we are all on dial-up.
Works fine here. But that doesn’t stop me from bad-mouthing Verizon and all the other spying, traitorous, telecoms whenever possible.
WhatTheHeck:
Nuking countrys N stuff is pretty bad but don’t get between me and my porn!!!!
Someone needs to punch Kim Jong right in the hair.
Verizon and Wonkette had the buttsex.
You should be grateful there is internet in your double secret underground desert fallout shelter bunker.
Ve(ry low ho)rizons?
North Korea is mad at Ken Layne for bringing down Sarah Palin via mad Photoshop skillz.
Verizon=The Devil. The whole company needs to be drawn, quartered, flayed, and burned at the stake. My every experience with Verizon has been as much fun as having acupuncture with sharpened awls.
Wasn’t verizon actually one of the companies that didn’t decide to install NSA datacenters in their exchanges?
bago: No, I believe it was Quest. Or something like that. Verizon was one of many of W’s lapdogs.
I’ve been paying extra to have Earthlink bring me a narrower banded version of orthographically challenged verison. Why was 6 afraid of 7?
For what it’s worth, I have Verizon DSL and have had no problems at all with the Internets today. And Ken, don’t you live in California where your phone comes from AT&T? This story is fishy. Obviously “Ken can’t get to the Internet” = “Ken is drunk.”
Just as long as you can get LOLcats.
Josh Fruhlinger: YOU LIE IN A MILLION DECEITFUL WAYS, FRUHLINGER.
No, it’s Verizon where I’m at, and in much of California.
I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. Verizon is just a fancy name for Bell of Pennsylvania. Ken, feel free to bomb Pittsburgh. The HQ is that ugly building near the intersection of Stanwix St. and the Boulevard of the Allies. I have it on good authority the Uighurs will do it for cheap. Love, Jukesghur
That’s NOT Comcastic
Well, at least I can take comfort in the fact that I wasn’t the only one screwed out of my internets this morning.
1ofUS: Because 7/8/9 - oh 1ofUS, ¡U R a Rye-It! Ha ha ha! A day that will live in infantacy.
Is the porn okay? That’s all I want to know.
Thank goodness, I couldn’t get to Wonkette(although my agency system was fine) I thought North Korea thought Wonkette was more important than many gov’t agencies- and they would be right!