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Ted Parker and Matt Stone, South Park creators, have a real talent to find interesting cultural patterns and write great episodes about them. They have done it again with this episode called ‘Over Logging’. (Watch it above)
“On last night’s South Park, disaster struck. The Internet disappeared. Stan’s father couldn’t look at porn! His mom couldn’t check her boring old email! And, most ominously and amusingly, television news was unable to find any information to report on. It was a pretty funny horror movie panic homage, even if it felt a tad dated.”
Internet failures are indeed appearing more and more often. As Francis Pisani points out, Sao Paulo didn’t have any Internet for one day last week. Problems have appeared in the United States as well, some people in Houston didn’t have any Internet for 5 days after an electrical explosion in a Web hosting company. And even Twitter was down for 37 hours…
As many people are now storing important information ‘in the clouds’, the problems may become even bigger…
Well, a solution could come from Gears, a beta software developed by Google to enable offline access to services that normally only are available online.
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