As you may have heard in the news, the Internet will be rebooted today and is expected to be down for around one minute. A global consortium of ISPs and technology companies has called for the action following several periods of instability over the past few years.
A spokesman for the group commented:
People forget that the Internet has been running continuously since the 1970s. This reboot will provide greater stability for years to come. We’re also hoping it will result in fewer viagra and scam messages.
The plans have been meticulous and all information will be backed up to CD and tape drives. No one should lose data as a result of the reboot, but everyone is advised to:
- Convert 1 April 11.59am UTC to their local time using a tool such as The World Clock Time Zone Converter.
- Shut down all Internet applications such as web browsers, email clients, and instant messengers shortly before the reboot.
- Wait at least a minute before restarting any applications.
The process is especially hazardous for the Internet technicians handling the restart. One specialist – who wished to remain anonymous – told us:
Some of the equipment down there is nearly 40 years old. There are missing fuses, exposed wires and unterminated cables: it will be dangerous.
Anyone surfing the net or sending a large email attachment at 11.59 could easily electrocute one of my team.
How will your company handle the reboot downtime? Is the reboot necessary? Do you think it should have been done sooner? Let us know your opinions, but please be careful when you send them.
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Happy 1st April :)
April 1st, 2009 at 7:04 am
I’ll go ahead and pass this along lol.
April 1st, 2009 at 7:05 am
This has got to be an April Fool’s joke. Seriously, how can you coordinate everyone rebooting the internet? That sounds pretty crazy.
April 1st, 2009 at 7:06 am
HA HA Ha
Very Funny
April 1st, 2009 at 7:06 am
What is this? The first April Fools joke? It happens in Australia before it happens in any other part of the habitable world. Hah Hah Hah
April 1st, 2009 at 7:06 am
Oh no!
April 1st, 2009 at 7:09 am
Foolish lol I am still in March though!
April 1st, 2009 at 7:11 am
Must we cover our computers like we had to do with our phones when they cleaned out all the phone lines??
April 1st, 2009 at 7:14 am
Should only take a few cd-r’s to back up the whole thing, right?
April 1st, 2009 at 7:15 am
well played. :)
April 1st, 2009 at 7:18 am
This almost had me going for a second. I was thinking about all those times people would call tech support saying the internet is broken.
April 1st, 2009 at 7:19 am
@beewee640 two floppies and one IOMEGA ZIP disk will do the trick
April 1st, 2009 at 7:20 am
Are you kidding? All the defense systems will go down as well & the aliens will attack us!! :P
April 1st, 2009 at 7:24 am
Well, I guess it’s already past midnight Down Under. :)
April 1st, 2009 at 7:29 am
I am going to print the Internet before for a physical copy…
April 1st, 2009 at 7:33 am
Currently backing up Alaska. Just in case…
April 1st, 2009 at 7:37 am
Not bad, but not as good as Smashing Magazines IE 8.1 post:
April 1st, 2009 at 7:45 am
Just sent it to my team at work. Why oh why do I believe everything I read!!
April 1st, 2009 at 7:52 am
Will this clean out the conflicker worm?
April 1st, 2009 at 7:56 am
Haha! Very good, thanks for the laugh!
April 1st, 2009 at 8:15 am
lol , 1 April lie :D
April 1st, 2009 at 8:21 am
today is april fools. what do you expect. :) nice sitepoint.
April 1st, 2009 at 8:47 am
Oh no! I’d better download the Internet! I’m sure I’ve got a few 16GB HDD here somewhere. It ought to fit on that right?
April 1st, 2009 at 9:38 am
Would now be a good time to upgrade to web 2.0 then?
April 1st, 2009 at 10:16 am
don’t feel anything wrong while i work
feel that.. fake news
or u can say April lie
April 1st, 2009 at 10:19 am
Nice april fools
April 1st, 2009 at 11:03 am
I realised it is 1st April by reading this article!
April 1st, 2009 at 11:12 am
I’ve already started my backup. Check on progress here:
http://www.w3schools.com/downloadwww.htm
April 1st, 2009 at 11:16 am
I got my 8″ floppies ready for the back up…Shouldn’t take more than a couple.
April 1st, 2009 at 11:27 am
Wow, first thing I thought when I saw this article “That’s the lamest April fools joke ever…”
So this is what you guys call living on the wild side?
April 1st, 2009 at 11:32 am
quite an obvious Aprils fools day joke!
April 1st, 2009 at 11:36 am
But….it is 8:39 CST and my porn torrents still have 4 hours to go! NOOOOOOOO!!!!
April 1st, 2009 at 11:39 am
I guess it already is April 1st in Australia, hehe.
If it means I’ll be receiving more viagra emails then it’s ok with me!
Oh, did I read that wrong?
April 1st, 2009 at 11:44 am
almost got me with this one. maybe this should be sent to some of my idiotic family members lol
April 1st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
hehehehe… i will keep my attachments under 3kb
April 1st, 2009 at 12:38 pm
REPORT: Government websites all backed up. No disks needed. Nothing useful needed backing up. All ready here.
April 1st, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Got me too lol
April 1st, 2009 at 1:30 pm
LOL! Can I burn a copy to a disk?
April 1st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I hope the internet doesn’t fail, like in South Park. We’d have to result in drawing picture of porn D:
April 1st, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I backed up to punched paper tape!
April 1st, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Hilarious :)
April 1st, 2009 at 2:41 pm
It’s tomorrow, not today…
April 1st, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Yeh, it only consists of the phrase ‘lol’, some pictures of cats, porn, and not a lot else. It’s highly compressible :P
April 1st, 2009 at 4:41 pm
you forgot to mention that you have format your computer before you can connect again :)
April 1st, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Saw that it was an April Fools joke easily, though I bet it will catch some out.
April 1st, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Happy April Fool’s Day.
April 1st, 2009 at 6:55 pm
oooooo dear
straight before 12 midday too :o
i hope no one confuses this with a april fools hoax hahahaha
April 1st, 2009 at 7:51 pm
APRIL FOOL
April 1st, 2009 at 7:55 pm
But I need my internet. D:
April 1st, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Im going to save the Internet before the reboot, by copying them to my trusty old 1.2 MB floppy. I am sure it fits.
April 1st, 2009 at 8:23 pm
What if Internet servers are replaced by sort of “Ghost servers” owned by hackers ? Is there a security fix for that sort of danger ?
April 1st, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I’m not THAT gullible LOL. nice one!
April 1st, 2009 at 8:44 pm
let me guess – Psyke
April 1st, 2009 at 9:00 pm
win!
April 1st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Just in time. We’re moving the Internet control Room to Aruba anyway
April 1st, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Hmm nice joke.
April 1st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Well i hope they wont forget to make BACKUP in case something go wrong!!!!
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:13 am
I say: when it works, don’t reboot, ever never. I dare not imagine what may happen – not happen, rather – should the Internet be unable to reboot.
I think I’ll email her my feelings before the reboot attempt, tell my enemies I love them, shave shower and share a good supper with the first bum I meet.
Gosh: I’m afraid I am.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 am
Is this a joke or what?
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 am
Everybody Relax!!! …I’ve been meticulously backup up all the porn on the net for years now.
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:58 am
I’m still waiting for the poor sod to arrive, who believes in this garbage! ;)
There’s bound to be someone out there somewhere!
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:00 am
.. my grandfather would be that poor sod.
Forwarding to him now.
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 am
I for one am quite upset. I received no advance notice of this, and the downtime for my office staff is going to cost my business a lot of money.
Couldn’t we do this overnight to minimize risk?
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:07 am
Might be a little more believable if this wasn’t sent on April Fools day.
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:14 am
Sounds like an ID ten T error:)
Write it out – our techs used to call it in when a computer was unplugged from the interwebs.
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:16 am
LOL! I fell for this at first! -blushes- lmao! I was like…Woooow I can’t believe this is happening! Amazing!
Then I thought, hmmm why isn’t this all over the news and msn.co.uk? Theeeeen I realized the time it said and what date it was!
Good April Fool’s joke! =P
- Andrew Cooper
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:24 am
I hope they wont forget to make BACKUP in case something go wrong!!!
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:31 am
Good to know that there will be a backup of the internet in case another woman deletes it again while trying to print like the last one here
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:56 am
I’ll back it up then upload it to thepiratebay.org
This way everyone can enjoy the world’s finest collection of porn, lol cats and malicious spyware…..wait…..Microsoft doesn’t own the internet right?!?!
I’d hate to torrent their property, they might include Conficker in my next Windows update….0_0
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:02 am
LOL, grow up
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 am
Lying is haram,
April Fool
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 am
That’s ok. I already did a backup of internet on my pen drive!
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 am
You the people at sitepoint is often seems to provide buzz like material. There was a time when I read the sitepoint books but now it is totally bogus are these books or girls “sexy css”,”sexy seb design” try to do some thingreally good that is informative. There was a time when I thought of writing articles or some other material like books but now it is just advertising campaign. Not some thing like packt , sams e.t.c. Youtube is also a commercial site but I like its youtube edu. Hey guys do some thing good instead of making new buzzwords and making people crazy about that.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 am
laughter is the best medicine, thanks for the titter
chris
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:22 am
godd, lost my whole post :(
ag, nooit forget it..
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 am
Anyone saw CADIE (Google’s panda) on Goolge Street Map View?
lol
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:57 am
We made it!
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 am
Wow! This sucked! 1minute? yeah right, it was having problems all this afternoon.
Must be monkeys running the internet, and don’t know how to keep it up.
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
do i have to backup my files ?
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Lol……………
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Did I miss something?
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:19 am