Remember that week in 2017 when half the internet went dark?

I still think about that Tuesday in October 2017 when AWS went down in Virginia for like 4 hours. I was working from home and suddenly couldn't access our ticketing system, my email, or even my music streaming. It was so quiet in my apartment, just me staring at error messages... made me realize how much we hand over to one company. Has anyone else had a random outage that stuck with you for years?

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mianelson22d ago

What was the first thing that felt wrong, the silence or those endless spinning loading wheels?

susansingh22d ago

Endless spinning loading wheels" - omg that's literally the stuff of nightmares for me lol.