[governance] FW: [1st-mile-nm] Arizona CenturyLink Fiber Cut

[Barry Shein]

On February 26, 2015 at 11:26 gurstein at gmail.com (Michael Gurstein) wrote:
 > What happens when the Internet goes out for a few hours.

It was a somewhat different time but I was using the ARPAnet on 4
November 1979 (perhaps it was the night of 3 Nov in Boston) when the
students in Teheran took control of the US embassy.

I was logged into an MIT system from home, probably MIT-AI (we hadn't
invented dots yet.)

I received a message across the screen identified as being from an
office in the pentagon to please log off immediately as I assume
everyone did. It said they needed to test some sort of urgent
emergency response.

I thought it was a prank, I didn't even know about the goings on in
Teheran yet, so just kept working.

Several more warnings and suddenly I was disconnected as was most
everyone else worldwide, there were probably more than one hundred of
us using the net that evening!

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        -Barry Shein

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