Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd, New York Times Website Is Down, Hackers Not Involved (And It’s Back Up), here.
Shares of the New York Times company fell by more than one percent to $12.05 by 1:50 pm ET today.
Naturally, there were a lot of a funny responses to the outage. The best came from The Onion:
BREAKING: @nytimes Receives Pulitzer For Coverage Of ‘Http/1.1 Service Unavailable’ Story
Dean Putney, boing boing, Unseen World War I photos: Destroyed Cathedrals, here.
Dan Amira, NYMag, The Drone Revolt Has Begun, here.
It was a good run, humans. Give yourselves a hand.