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binocarlos | 2 years ago

I use hacker news as my "is my Internet working" test - it's fast and always up (kudos)

So yes, I also thought my Internet was broken :-)

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trustingtrust|2 years ago

I restarted my phone because I thought my network was down blindly believing HN can never be down. Then I opened another website and realised this is one of those times that the website was actually down.

zeven7|2 years ago

Same but even after seeing another site was working I still wondered if it was my Pi Hole / DNS cache acting up or something.

nubinetwork|2 years ago

It was down for a while last week too...

scbrg|2 years ago

Back in the day (90:ies) a colleague at the ISP I was working at (small time dial up business) told me that the one site on the Internet you could count on always being up was playboy.com. Therefore, it was our standard "check if Internet is working" site. In the event that it was a DNS issue, it was also best to memorize its IP.

For some reason, knowing the IP number of playboy.com by heart was not a skill I bragged about a lot :P

These days it's 1.1. Easier both to remember and type than anything else.

johnwalkr|2 years ago

I used to have a smartphone plan that throttled to 100kbps after I used my data. At that point, for the rest of the month I would usually live with it because HN and google maps still worked even when every other site wouldn't load.

dang|2 years ago

It was our internet that broke.

getwiththeprog|2 years ago

You can borrow ours next time if you want

0xfedbee|2 years ago

It’s not fast and always up. It’s down more than all other websites in my top 10.

FergusArgyll|2 years ago

I thought that a stupid comment i made got so downvoted that the backend broke