'The Internet is down.' What does that really mean? – ITworld.com

'The Internet is down.' What does that really mean?
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Similarly, in February 2008, a two-hour global Hotmail outage occurred, which also affected MSN Messenger and other Microsoft Live services. In July 2001, MSN Messenger was down for up to a week for some users after a disk controller in a database …