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Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike (arstechnica.com)
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A Cloudflare spokesperson told Ars that the cloud services provider saw “a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services,” which “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.”

“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson said. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”

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[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 34 points 9 months ago

I can't even explain dial up modems to my son because I'd have to start by explaining what phone lines are.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

I had a Gen Z person ask me how I got a "3D printer save button" when I had a floppy disk for some reason.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Indeed.

"...you must first invent the universe".

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It wasn't about the lines. It was always about the switches. And while they are no longer actual hardware, but rather software, those are still the what makes phones work.

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