A lot of people who work from home got a free day off yesterday, or at least got to skip their boring work meeting
Zoom was down nationwide for about two hours yesterday. If you tried to log in or join a meeting, you got an error page that said, “This site can’t be reached.” Even Zoom’s website wasn’t working.
Users panicked and flocked to social media to see if it was just them, or if everyone was having issues. Then the memes started: One of the first memes rending was a clip of Oprah yelling, “YOU get a vacation, and YOU get a vacation!” (Here are a few more good ones.)
One person called it a corporate America “snow day.” Another joked no one on their team could get in, and it was “the most productive Zoom meeting” ever
It went down around 2:40 p.m. Eastern and got fixed around 4:15. But it took a little longer for everyone to gain access again.
Zoom sent out a tweet at 5:00 p.m. that said service had been restored. Last we heard, they still hadn’t said what caused it.
Meanwhile, Spotify ALSO went down yesterday and thousands of people couldn’t access their music for five hours. Spotify said it started at 6:20 a.m. Eastern, and they were back up by 11:45 a.m.
No immediate word on what happened there either, or if the two outages were related.
It all happened two days after ANOTHER big outage, and this one might be permanent: The messageboard site 4chan got hacked on Monday, and there’s talk it might be gone for good.
It’s popular with trolls and conspiracy nuts, because everyone on there is anonymous, or was. A bunch of admin emails got leaked.
One software expert said it would take a lot of time and money to get it back up, so it really might be “the end of 4chan as we know it.”
(“A.V. Club” pointed out that if it really is the end, the last words ever posted on there were “chiken jockey.” It’s a reference to the stunt Gen Z’ers have been pulling at “Minecraft” screenings.
