An interesting article over at Belfast Telegraph about how Michael Jackson’s death brought down several sites including Google News. One thing that should be noted is that even sites that didn’t have news were affected.

Some of the sites that continued to function experienced sluggish performance because of the way they were built. For example, some slowed down because they needed to fetch third-party content, such as advertisements, before serving up the page to the reader.

Ironic that it would be somthing like this and not an outbreak of war that would truely test the net’s infrastructure.

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