Although Verizon and T-Mobile customers reported some internet outages, too, they appeared far less widespread.
More than 74,000 AT&T customers reported outages on digital-service tracking site DownDetector.
Thats not a comprehensive number: It tracks only self-reported outages.
Reports had been rising steadily throughout the morning but leveled off in the 9 am ET hour.
It was a nightmare of a morning for at least 74,000 people across America.
How will they learn which fictional character would would make the worst roommate.
Is it the Joker?
Brendan Fraser from The Whale?
Instead they were forced to listen to terrestrial radio.
Or god forbid spend a half hour with their own thoughts (a fate worse than death).
And they couldn’t even angrily post about it online until they arrived at work and connected to WiFi.
Pour one out for those unfortunate people.
At the time of writing this, nobody seems to know the reason for the outage.
The “best” explanation I was able to find is that it was triggered by a solar flare.
I’m obviously not smart enough to even know if that makes sense.
I’d have told myself, “Ah yes of course, a solar flare.
Makes perfect sense to me.”
However, 3 months ago, I saw the movie “Leave The World Behind”.
Netflix- Leave the World Behind is here and its chilling.
Starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, and Ethan Hawke, the apocalyptic thriller from Mr.
Robot creator Sam Esmail tells the story of two families as they fight for survival amid an inexplicable blackout.
Only one things for sure: There is no going back to normal.
Technology is mysteriously on the fritz, and the deer around the families Long Island hideout are acting strange.
Find out more below, and stay safe out there.
As part of the cyber attack, cell phone service across the country shut down entirely.
Still, if this was any other movie, I wouldn’t have thought much about it.
And to hear an ex-president say youre off by a few details…
I thought I was off by a lot!
The fact that he said that scared the fuck out of me.
Considering this script was helped along by Barack Obama.
So then I got in my big dumb head about it.
“Holy shit, this is exactly what the former President of the United States said would happen.
We’re being attacked by enemies.
I better get my ass out of the city immediately before this all goes to shit.”
Unless that’s just what our government wants us to think.
Maybe this was their plan the whole time.
Now this is the point of the blog where I’m in over my head.
I don’t have the slightest clue as to what it could theoretically be.
I’m not a conspiracy guy.
Realistically, I don’t think anything crazy is happening.
But I am a simple minded person.
Or maybe the cell phone companies are just incompetent.
At least for today.
In some ways it’s surprising this doesn’t happen more often.
All things considered, they do a pretty damn good job.
Unless I’m completely forgetting something, this is their biggest fuck up I can remember.
Honestly this could all be fixed by the time this blog gets posted.
I sure hope it is.
Because I really need to stop Twitter searching #CyberAttack and do some actual work today.
