Of course you could make an overly elaborate uptime monitoring system. Many people have in the past. The thing that makes downforeveryone neat is that it is abs

Of course you could make an overly elaborate uptime monitoring system. Many people have in the past. The thing that makes downforeveryone neat is that it is absolutely bare-bones. "Is it down for everyone?" "Nope, just you." No screen shots, no packet traces. Does it work? Yes/no. All I wanted to know.