The Great Internet Slowdown
With the rise of You Tube, Bit Torrent, iPlayer, Facebook and generally everyone including your Gran using the internet, you may have noticed how slow the internet is getting these days, with 2010 looking like crunch time.
Various major outages have struck recently, and even big player Amazon seems to be feeling the pinch, with it's S3 storage product collapsing in February, Amazon.com itself down for a couple of hours a few weeks back (at a potential 'loss' of $31,000 per minute) and Amazon-owned IMDB seemingly out of action at the weekend.
It's nothing new however, as at the time one of the busiest days ever was following the release of the Starr Report in '98.
Reports of a Chimpomatic outage in Madrid remain unconfirmed.
27th Jun 2008 - Tumblr