UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Fri Oct 4 18:34:34 UTC 2002



http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55580,00.html

How and Why the Internet Broke
By Michelle Delio
9:35 a.m. Oct. 4, 2002 PDT

The Internet was very confused on Thursday.

But cyberspace hasn't gone senile. Those massive e-mail delays, slow
Internet connections and downed e-businesses were all caused by a software
upgrade that went horribly wrong at WorldCom's UUNet division, a large
provider network communications.

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