Words / blog / 31 January 2009
Google mysteriously breaks and you can't surf the web anymore; seems like a remote scenario that you'd never take that seriously. And yes, today it did happen [techcrunch reports on this].
What a weird feeling - all of a sudden it was like being cut off from some sort of life-feed, or left without electricity in the house... It's scary how used I got to the internet..
Cite / this blog post
Michele Pasin. Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware. Blog post on www.michelepasin.org. Published on Jan. 31, 2009.
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