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Saturday, October 05, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55580,00.html How and Why the Internet Broke on 10/3/2002 Michelle Delio The Internet was very confused on Thursday. But cyberspace hasn't gone senile. Those massive e-mail delays, slow Internet connections and downed e-businesses were all caused by a software upgrade that went horribly wrong at WorldCom's UUNet division, a large provider of network communications. The problem affected roughly 20 percent of UUNet's U.S. customers -- which translates to millions of users across the United States and around the world -- for most of Thursday, according to WorldCom spokeswoman Jennifer Baker....
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