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The Internet Survives Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service

Brennon Slattery

Jul 8, 2009 10:14 am

When news of Michael Jackson’s death hit the wire on June 25, the Web crumbled beneath its weight. AOL went down in flames. News sites were overloaded with page views. Twitter was smothered by the Fail Whale. So when Jackson’s memorial service was announced, the Internet prepared itself for a massive influx of streaming video, tweets, status updates, and more. This time it survived.

(more at the link above…)

* By the way “The Internet” (some think it is The Web, there isn’t a WEB - it’s a bunch of “stuff” that travels over “The Internet”) isn’t just some sites that had troubles due to Michael Jackson events. It’s a lot of other sites and servers and routers and backbone connections. And no doubt all of that didn’t go DOWN due the Michael Jackson events.

The Internet is a distributed network of hosts … from end users on WiFI, Cellular 3g, Cable Modem, DSL, and such - to Servers and Virtual Servers with Web Sites, to the Backbone and Interconnect Points (Peering/Exchanges) as well as Content Caching and Mirroring Services such as Akamai. Certain servers … maybe even their routers or Internet connections might have gotten a bit bogged down. But that isn’t whole Internet people. My web sites stayed up just fine.

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