• February 13, 2012

Whoops, Verizon broke the fucking internet again.MAYBE YOU’LL SEE THIS ON TWITTER: So, ha ha, about half the Internet is invisible to Verizon DSL customers today — including at your editor’s office, whoops. Try a proxy server if you can’t see your Favorite Websites. Weirdly enough, Verizon’s wireless broadband domain-name servers seem just fine, so your editor will just work on his teeny tiny mouse-sized HP mini until, uh, tomorrow. “It should resolve in approximately 24 hours,” the cheerful support person in India just told me. Hooray.

{ 28 comments }

shortsshortsshorts July 8, 2009 at 1:08 pm

The Internet is secksist.

AnglRdr July 8, 2009 at 1:10 pm

“Catastrophic” was the adjective used by my workplace to describe the outage.

Stay strong!

OzoneTom July 8, 2009 at 1:10 pm

Looks like they just got this fixed. Finally I can get to my beloved Wonkette…

norbizness July 8, 2009 at 1:11 pm

I think that nice, normal-looking young man with the Rivers Cuomo glasses and the blue company jacket who commands the vast Verizon network went insane with power and decided to plunge America into an electricity-deprived, Luddite hell.

WhatTheHeck July 8, 2009 at 1:11 pm

That North Korean CLOWN is sending missiles up our intertubes.

IceCreamEmpress July 8, 2009 at 1:12 pm

I may never say this again, but thank Jeebus for Comcast! 7/8 NEVAH FORGET

wigu July 8, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Jesus fixed the internet with His magics! Praise be.

Todd Mecklem July 8, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Those North Korean hackers are getting better all the time…

CrunchyKnee July 8, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Today, we are all on dial-up.

bitchincamaro July 8, 2009 at 1:17 pm

Works fine here. But that doesn’t stop me from bad-mouthing Verizon and all the other spying, traitorous, telecoms whenever possible.

Monsieur Grumpe July 8, 2009 at 1:17 pm

[re=357707]WhatTheHeck[/re]:
Nuking countrys N stuff is pretty bad but don’t get between me and my porn!!!!
Someone needs to punch Kim Jong right in the hair.

facehead July 8, 2009 at 1:21 pm

Verizon and Wonkette had the buttsex.

NoWireHangers July 8, 2009 at 1:22 pm

You should be grateful there is internet in your double secret underground desert fallout shelter bunker.

rereridiculous July 8, 2009 at 1:24 pm

Ve(ry low ho)rizons?

Mr Blifil July 8, 2009 at 1:24 pm

North Korea is mad at Ken Layne for bringing down Sarah Palin via mad Photoshop skillz.

Doglessliberal July 8, 2009 at 1:25 pm

Verizon=The Devil. The whole company needs to be drawn, quartered, flayed, and burned at the stake. My every experience with Verizon has been as much fun as having acupuncture with sharpened awls.

bago July 8, 2009 at 1:26 pm

Wasn’t verizon actually one of the companies that didn’t decide to install NSA datacenters in their exchanges?

bitchincamaro July 8, 2009 at 1:30 pm

[re=357733]bago[/re]: No, I believe it was Quest. Or something like that. Verizon was one of many of W’s lapdogs.

1ofUS July 8, 2009 at 1:32 pm

I’ve been paying extra to have Earthlink bring me a narrower banded version of orthographically challenged verison. Why was 6 afraid of 7?

Josh Fruhlinger July 8, 2009 at 1:35 pm

For what it’s worth, I have Verizon DSL and have had no problems at all with the Internets today. And Ken, don’t you live in California where your phone comes from AT&T? This story is fishy. Obviously “Ken can’t get to the Internet” = “Ken is drunk.”

TGY July 8, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Just as long as you can get LOLcats.

Ken Layne July 8, 2009 at 1:53 pm

[re=357750]Josh Fruhlinger[/re]: YOU LIE IN A MILLION DECEITFUL WAYS, FRUHLINGER.

No, it’s Verizon where I’m at, and in much of California.

Jukesgrrl July 8, 2009 at 1:55 pm

I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. Verizon is just a fancy name for Bell of Pennsylvania. Ken, feel free to bomb Pittsburgh. The HQ is that ugly building near the intersection of Stanwix St. and the Boulevard of the Allies. I have it on good authority the Uighurs will do it for cheap. Love, Jukesghur

Rukasu July 8, 2009 at 1:56 pm

That’s NOT Comcastic

Joehoya July 8, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Well, at least I can take comfort in the fact that I wasn’t the only one screwed out of my internets this morning.

1ofUS July 8, 2009 at 2:09 pm

[re=357747]1ofUS[/re]: Because 7/8/9 – oh 1ofUS, ¡U R a Rye-It! Ha ha ha! A day that will live in infantacy.

19kevin8 July 8, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Is the porn okay? That’s all I want to know.

finallyhappy July 8, 2009 at 2:17 pm

Thank goodness, I couldn’t get to Wonkette(although my agency system was fine) I thought North Korea thought Wonkette was more important than many gov’t agencies- and they would be right!

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