Boing Boing reader discovers internet vulnerability

Please do not reboot. Internet will be deleted. (Via Andrew Roach BB G+)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

chaopoiesis

Vive le solipsisme!
DevinC

But what if something goes wrong? ’Cos then we’ll need to turn it off and on again. How can we fix the Internet if we can’t turn it off and on again?
Boundegar

I am concerned.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I don’t know. I think that I might be ready for a fresh start.
  - Gilbert Wham
    
    If it means we can troll a fresh generation with Bonsai Kittens then I’m up for it.
  - howaboutthisdangit
    
    I’m game, as long as we can ban big media and patent trolls right from the outset.
Phoc Yu

Maybe it’s an homage to the first web server ever, running on a NeXT at CERN.
http://www.facebook.com/ryan.powers Ryan Powers

The IT Crowd – Jen Brings the Internet to the Shareholders meeting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTBsm0LzSP0
- euansmith
  
  You beat me to it :D
Matthew Bondy

All glory to the prophecy of eventual deletion of the internet not necessarily related to the remark about rebooting.
pjcamp

And here I thought it was Comcast’s fault. Silly me.
- chgoliz
  
  EVERYTHING is Comcast’s fault.
http://www.leidentech.com leidentech

Don’t worry I have backups.
http://twitter.com/JaysonElliot Jayson Elliot

I fantasize about this actually happening.