https://web.archive.org/web/20061107120353/http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00192.html https://web.archive.org/web/20061107120353/http://www.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061107120353/http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00192.html https://web.archive.org/web/20061107120353/http://www.merit.... > Of course you should understand that I ate the column only because the Internet, as far as I can tell, did not suffer a gigalapse during 1996 -- a billion lost user*hours in a single outage. The Internet has indeed bogged down (hit STOP much?) and has indeed suffered large outages (the biggest being a 118 megalapse at AOL in August) He was only wrong by a factor of 9.