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Facebook outage recap (2010-09-23)
Posted under A Geek Dad's Life, Blog Posts
September 23rd, 2010 is a day that shall live in infamy. Facebook implemented a ‘fix’ in their software that tore the entire system down for 2 1/2 hours. (Yeah, been there.)
Besides being an excellent opportunity for journalists to highlight that people are way too addicted to social media, it was also a chance for me snark.
As seen by my Twitter followers at @mrscottfletcher, here is a blow-by-blow rundown of the events that transpired between 2:15pm and 4:36pm Thursday September 23, 2010.
2:13pm
Derp. Facebook ‘server not found.’ I can hear cries through the din of humanity now.
2:17 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Global productivity returns to 95% pre-Facebook Levels. (5% of people still clicking Refresh.)
2:20 PM
BREAKING NEWS: FOX News reports that Facebook DNS failure caused by hidden clause in Healthcare Reform bill.
2:28 PM
BREAKING NEWS: FEMA estimates Farmville crop losses in the billions of nothing.