MySpace Knocked Offline by Power Outage »

Posted by: Webwonk 2 years, 2 months ago

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MySpace is offline most of Sunday night, save for a message blaming the downtime on a power outage. The Internet tilts on its side as distraught users flock to LiveJournal to post blog items saying "OMG, MySpace is down!"

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Comments: 18

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bkb16
July 24, 2006, 8:31 a.m.
Why don't they have servers in more than one location? It appears they don't.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/myspace1.htm
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zdabra
July 24, 2006, 9:46 a.m.
I hate MySpace. Then again, I'm probably not their target demographic.
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MissPJAdkins
July 24, 2006, 9:47 a.m.
Myspace is down!?!?! I think I just heard the earth crack.....
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MissPJAdkins
July 24, 2006, 9:47 a.m.
Life is over as we know it.
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mario
July 24, 2006, 10:19 a.m.
Looks like they're back online as of Monday morning. Yes, it does seem peculiar that they wouldn't have backup servers in another location. You would think that with all the money they probably they make from the annoying advertising they have on their pages, that they would shell out some cash to get some alternative servers. It looks like someone's just sitting back and raking in the dough.
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sangster
July 24, 2006, 12:22 p.m.
oh thank god it is back up again. I can not stop the addiction. I do not understand why it is an addiction, but it is. Soon there will be a group to help people cope with this problem. LOL
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mommert
July 24, 2006, 12:41 p.m.
Omg ! it's all over !
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etskid777
July 24, 2006, 2:09 p.m.
What ever will the emo kids do with themselves?
-Brandon
http://www.thebrandonshow.com
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blueyedevil
July 24, 2006, 2:33 p.m.
i would leave a comment but I'm to busy on myspace
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dasquirrel
July 24, 2006, 2:33 p.m.
Everyone google the myspace milkshake song
"My myspace brings all the boys to the page
and they're like
Mine's better than yours
and I'm like
You wish it was
please comment
or I'll have a fit!
lala lala laa
300 friends
lala lala laa
5,000 comments
oh my ****** gosh
I can't sign in
My myspace brings all the boys to the page..."
terribly quoted
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buddy123hound
July 24, 2006, 2:50 p.m.
As funny as saying "the world is over OMG" it is also sad to think that maybe eventually internet intagration will be that severe.
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Seradene
July 24, 2006, 3:07 p.m.
they should get rid of myspace anyway. its like 50% pedophiles anyway.
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josue-salazar
July 24, 2006, 7:01 p.m.
haha we should all be thanking god for this and praying it never comes back online
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weirdscience
July 24, 2006, 9:41 p.m.
Oh no!! There must have been mass teenage suicides. MySpace is down!!! I guess I'll use the phone even though they are SO not cool anymore!
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weirdscience
July 24, 2006, 9:43 p.m.
I think that the "Tom" guy from MySpace finally passed out at his keyboard...
ARRRGHHHHHH!!!!! Too many friends! Too many people soliciting sex!!!
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josue-salazar
July 24, 2006, 10:52 p.m.
Hahahaha, weirdscience you're right on the money.
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asiansweetheart
July 25, 2006, 10:19 a.m.
Good. That means a break from distributing spyware - story: tech.netsc...
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asiansweetheart
July 25, 2006, 10:29 a.m.
What's up with links on Netscape anyway? I post a link to a Netscape story and they redirect it to a different story. So I removed the http:// and they truncate the text of the link. Is this a bug? Or is Netscape being sneaky, playing games with comments to promote the stories they want? Won't take much of that to lose what's left of their users.