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| Thread ID: 31215 | 2003-03-15 09:01:00 | The World has gone! | Big John (551) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 128343 | 2003-03-15 09:01:00 | **** looks like the world has gone. No access outside New Zealand. Maybe Bush pushed the big red button. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 128344 | 2003-03-15 09:04:00 | Nope its back again now. Must have just been a glitch in the line out of NZ | Big John (551) | ||
| 128345 | 2003-03-15 09:18:00 | ... and I thought my posting was bad enough | E.ric (351) | ||
| 128346 | 2003-03-15 09:20:00 | Tut tut, it was just your ISP, we have been in ChatF1 with no disruptions for over half an hour now, and ChatF1's server (farr.net.nz) is in the USA. | nz_liam (845) | ||
| 128347 | 2003-03-15 09:24:00 | You don't think that if the USA got 'upset' at Iraq that good ol' Bush would cut off access to American Servers right? I mean that would mean no more Hotmail!!! No more CNN (that's American right?) And how many people use CNN for their daily news? |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 128348 | 2003-03-15 09:29:00 | > You don't think that if the USA got 'upset' at Iraq > that good ol' Bush would cut off access to American > Servers right? I mean that would mean no more > Hotmail!!! > No more CNN (that's American right?) > And how many people use CNN for their daily news? Hello brainstem?! nope nobody home.... The internet is a fully redundant system, not a little box sitting in the white house where politicians can turn on and off sites.... |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 128349 | 2003-03-15 09:34:00 | You shouldn't make fun of my ignorance and stupidity... You just make me doubt my own ignorance and stupidity even more :p Just a question though - where does the fibre optic cables that join NZ, Australia, Hawaii and USA all end up at the USA side of things?? does anyone know? |
cyberchuck (173) | ||
| 128350 | 2003-03-15 09:36:00 | Well I'm just sitting here. YOUR WORLD may have gone but mine hasn't (YET) I think I'm on a planet called Earth which revolves around the Sun every 365.25 days (ROUGHLY) What is your world like? |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 128351 | 2003-03-15 09:36:00 | At throusands of different POP's (points of presence). | nz_liam (845) | ||
| 128352 | 2003-03-15 09:40:00 | What if the US cut off the internet?.....shock horror....ppl wouldnt be able to spend countless hours playing games online...students wouldnt get their fix of illegal mp3's...thousands of perverts wouldnt be able to download porn...oh how would civilisation survive? | promethius (1998) | ||
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