Welcome back AS32934. A little bit of Internet history just happened — has so much traffic ever stopped and started in such a short period of time? Somewhere,

Welcome back AS32934. A little bit of Internet history just happened — has so much traffic ever stopped and started in such a short period of time? Somewhere, one more happily undulating circadian egress graph just had a whopping exponential decay chunk taken out of it. How close to 0 did it get? What void lies below the graph? Elder gods? Blank packetless skree? The Great Quiet? We may never know — it’s noisy again now and will never get quieter. Long may these events continue. The Internet was never meant to work all the time, it was meant to take a pummelling, say whatever, and carry on regardless.