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What Happened to Amazon?

Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"

Are they still in business?

BobW wrote:
> "SMS" <> wrote in message
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>> What Happened to Amazon?
>>
>> Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
>>
>> Are they still in business?
>
> I just got the same thing. Very odd.

Their Canadian site is still up, "http://www.amazon.ca/".

Seems to be working (now)

BobW wrote:

>
> "SMS" <> wrote in message
> news:d8f2k.7885$...
>> What Happened to Amazon?
>>
>> Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
>>
>> Are they still in business?
>
> I just got the same thing. Very odd.
>
> I used to work for a very large company ($4B/yr sales). One year, they
> forgot to pay the fee to maintain their domain name. They nearly lost it.
> Maybe that's what happened to Amazon.

Their domain registration is paid up until 31-oct-2017.


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The Bobert wrote:

> In article <>,
> "BobW" <> wrote:
>
>
>> Hmmm...I have a theory -- they have a bug in their software such that if
>> someone orders the combination of a CD, two books, and a screwdriver
>> then it takes down their website.
>>
>> Let me know what I've won.
>>
>> Bob
>
> You get the No-Prize for the day.

Can I have the booby prize? I like boobies.

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BobW wrote:

>
> <> wrote in message
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>> BobW wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hmmm...I have a theory -- they have a bug in their software such that
>>> if someone orders the combination of a CD, two books, and a screwdriver
>>> then it takes down their website.
>>>
>>> Let me know what I've won.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> A dinner with Alexander Abian.
>>
>> In 1973 I had, for two days, the secret formula for crashing the ENTIRE
>> INTERNET (Arpanet). It happened twice before the coders figured out what
>> the bug was
>> in their code. Such were the early days.
>>
>> Doug McDonald
>>
>>
> Doug,
>
> Wow. You were active in networking during the Arpanet days? In 1973, I was
> still trying to see how far I could pee.

Once you get old enough, that will become important to you again.


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On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:06:11 -0700, "BobW"
<> wrote:

>Wow. You were active in networking during the Arpanet days? In 1973, I was
>still trying to see how far I could pee.

Let's see...In 1973 I was working in the secure communications center at
Naval Air Station, Alameda, California. Worked on repairing
cryptographic equipment and troubleshooting Navy's communications
network on base whenever it went down. Those were the good old days!
ASR33 teletypes pounding out hard copy at 60 words per minute. Keeping
busy day and night. Good old punched paper tape with the 5-bit Baudot
code for offline storage

In 1974 I was worked in the communications center on Midway Island:
http://gbe.dynip.com/Midway/Gary_Eds.../Q0001107A.jpg
(The above picture was taken during a return visit in 2001. The
building had long-since been abandoned.)

Gary

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:20:19 -0700, Gary Edstrom
<> you wrote:

>On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:06:11 -0700, "BobW"
><> wrote:
>
>>Wow. You were active in networking during the Arpanet days? In 1973, I was
>>still trying to see how far I could pee.
>
>Let's see...In 1973 I was working in the secure communications center at
>Naval Air Station, Alameda, California. Worked on repairing
>cryptographic equipment and troubleshooting Navy's communications
>network on base whenever it went down. Those were the good old days!
>ASR33 teletypes pounding out hard copy at 60 words per minute. Keeping
>busy day and night. Good old punched paper tape with the 5-bit Baudot
>code for offline storage
>
>In 1974 I was worked in the communications center on Midway Island:
>http://gbe.dynip.com/Midway/Gary_Eds.../Q0001107A.jpg
>(The above picture was taken during a return visit in 2001. The
>building had long-since been abandoned.)
>
>Gary


Hey! I was a CT(T) back then. Ah the good ole days... the elephant
cage, teletype and sonagrams...

BobW wrote:

> Hmmm...I have a theory -- they have a bug in their software such that if
> someone orders the combination of a CD, two books, and a screwdriver then it
> takes down their website.


Oh..they're using Windows Vista?



mike


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Paul Allen wrote:

> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:19:29 -0700, SMS wrote:
>
>> What Happened to Amazon?
>>
>> Their web site comes back with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
>>
>> Are they still in business?
>
> Wow. At 11:32am, Pacific Time, they're still offline. I wonder how many
> billion dollars they lose for each minute they're down? Some poor Unix
> admin's sweating right now.

A CNET estimate that was slashdotted today was "more than $31,000 per
minute on average", based on its last reported quarterly revenues.


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