The day the Internet Died

On the 29th of October 2010 the Internet went down. I found it almost distressing that i couldn't do anything that required Internet access such as facebook, YouTube, xbox live and of course accessing my blog. It revealed to me how much of an impact the Internet has made to my life. I am only 16 years old and i am only just younger than the Internet which became open to public use on the 6th of August 1991. In its 19 years of use it has embedded itself in the youth of the 21st century (and indeed in the 20th century babies such as myself) and now we cannot imagine life without it. I'm not sure whether i feel more advanced that we have a technology such as the Internet or look upon the human race with a sense of pity that we cannot survive without our mechanical toys. I shudder to imagine the effects of the forecasted solar flare in 2013 that is said to leave us without electricity for an unseen period of time. It could be an hour, a day, a week, a month, we just don't know.
It went down apparently all over Northern Ireland. As soon as I realised mine wasn't working, like a typical teenager, i texted my friend to complain. He told me his was down as well as of roughly an hour ago. I found this a bit coincidental. And so i started asking around. None of my friends had working Internet connections. i tried to figure out how far it had gone down but my friend in England had already left for his Halloween holiday in Donegal.

Obviously its working again but in the time it was down my curiosity wrought havoc in my head. I was coming up with theories as to why this had happened at lightning fast speed. I came up with cyber terrorists, aliens, natural occurrences such as electrical distortion in the air or an unforeseen solar flare.

Well that's all i have to say on the subject. And as this post has been unusually serious, please enjoy this picture of an elephant on a couch: