{"id":186933,"date":"2013-08-17T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/17\/what-the-f-8\/"},"modified":"2013-08-17T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T01:18:00","slug":"what-the-f-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/17\/what-the-f-8\/","title":{"rendered":"What the F%$#?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/08\/17\/google_outage\/\">went down yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">You can all relax now. The near-unprecedented outage that seemingly affected all of Google&#8217;s services for a brief time on Friday is over.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The event began at approximately 4:37pm Pacific Time and lasted between one and five minutes, according to the Google Apps Dashboard. All of the Google Apps services reported being back online by 4:48pm.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The incident apparently blacked out every service Mountain View has to offer simultaneously, from Google Search to Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and beyond.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Big deal, right? Everyone has technical difficulties every once in a while. It goes with the territory.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But then, not everyone is Google. According to web analytics firm GoSquared, worldwide internet traffic dipped by a stunning 40 per cent during the brief minutes that the Chocolate Factory&#8217;s services were offline. Here&#8217;s the graph of what that looked like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/rXZzzkU.png\" width=\"475\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if maybe there was an issue with the latest brand of sniffer software from the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is weird. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google went down yesterday: You can all relax now. The near-unprecedented outage that seemingly affected all of Google&#8217;s services for a brief time on Friday is over.The event began at approximately 4:37pm Pacific Time and lasted between one and five minutes, according to the Google Apps Dashboard. All of the Google Apps services reported being &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,997,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}