Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash" video.

  1. I remember the days when I thought you were sick if you had five tabs open. Now I just try to avoid the dreaded "99+" on my phone's browser...
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  2.  @andrewstone8396  Maybe you didn't in Internet Explorer, but Firefox has had tabs since 2001
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  3.  @2200Stinger  I realize I should feel attacked, but honestly the idea of following your advice has me visualizing Ron Livingston and his look of serenity at the end of Office Space
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  4. For those doubting this, yes, it was a Georgian woman, and she took down internet for all of Armenia. How a single individual could take down the internet for an entire country on the other side of the world just speaks to how deeply complex the modern Internet is. And yes, that's the joke.
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  5.  @goatdeer8403  Yes
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  6. Oh the optimism of 2009... Let's just say a lot of children were born approximately nine months after March 2, 2018.
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  7. ​ @thefrey9588  A year late, and YouTube doesn't like sharing non-YT links, but yes, this was very real. A quick Google search finds contemporary pieces from CNN and techcrunch.
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  8.  @thefrey9588  Cheers!
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  9. He was a mac user. That's a Gen 5 iMac. Would have topped out at 512MB of RAM with a 2.1GHz PowerPC (single-core?) CPU. For context, a Raspberry Pi 4B has four cores that can be pushed to that clock, and up to 16x the RAM.
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  10. ​ @dontspikemydrink9382  Two years late: the joke is that a lot of exchanges coordinated over Craigslist were done in parking lots in broad daylight out of fear that the other person was trying to scam and/or murder the other. Appreciate your handle, btw. Feels apt for this conversation.
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  11. When you wrote this the news would have even been relevant because JCP had just declared bankruptcy and closed 200 stores...
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  12.  @Tadfafty  Major AWS outage, which revealed just how much of the internet runs on AWS.
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