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Premonition video? - OMG! All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

When the directors of this video dreamed up the "OMG! All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash" scenario, I bet they didn't expect this to happen quite so soon after their premonition:

"The Web 2.0 datacenter 365 Main, in the heart of SOMA, just lost power. Sites that are affected include Craigstlist, Technorati, Yelp and all Six Apart properties, TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox...People using LiveJournal OpenID will be unable to authenticate to other sites until service has been restored."

That's a lot of sites and users down. Not the end of the online world for everyone, but it certainly comes close to that for some.

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Frank La Vigne said:

# July 26, 2007 11:24 AM