IMPORTANT: Internet Shut down and Clean up

[Tom Dixon]

Just to Inform all who don't know.........
It's that time again! As many of you know, every five years the Internet must be shut down for 24 hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which eliminates dead email and inactive ftp, www and gopher sites, allows for a better-working and faster Internet.This year, the cleaning process will take place from 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 2 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on April 3. During that 24-hour period, five powerful Internet-crawling robots situated around the world will search the Internet and delete any data that they find. In order to protect your valuable data from deletion we ask that you do the following:

1. Disconnect all terminals and local area networks from their Internet connections.

2. Shut down all Internet servers, or disconnect them from the Internet.

3. Disconnect all disks and hardrives from any connections to the Internet.

4. Refrain from connecting any computer to the Internet in any way.

We understand the inconvenience that this may cause some Internet users, and we apologize. However, we are certain that any inconveniences will be more than made up for by the increased speed and efficiency of the Internet, once it has been cleared of electronic flotsam and jetsam. We thank you for your cooperation.

 

[Senior KX Rider]

:think:moon:

 

[georgieboy]

this a hoags, right?

 

[bud]

Hey, it's still 16 hours till april 1 :|

 

[MX-727]

One other thing: Please use my e-mail to submit (via PayPal) your internet cleaning fee ($10/year or $50)

 

[yzeater]

That's not really that funny

 

[Jeff Gilbert]

it shouldn't take more than a few seconds to "clean" the internet with all the servers disconnected, all that's left is the cabling and it doesn't hold that much information.:moon:

 

[MONKEYMOUSE]

But real whats this all about? Will all my favorit places be goan and april 3rd? THEY BETER NOT BE!

 

[singletracker500]

I don't know why you don't just use Norton Clean Sweep. It'll clean the net in no time at all! :cool:

 

[gasgasman]

April's fool?:think :eek:

I'd like to see those five internet crawling robots.

 

[MikeT]

Oh COME ON. This is the same DUMB hoax that has been going on for years and years. If ANYONE types ANYTHING after my post here and asks if they really are "going to shut down the internet to clean it up" then PLEASE Send me a check for $500 for every computer you own. I have a special device that can protect your computer from internet worms that grow in your monitor. Just send me a check and my "invention" will digest the worms bodies before they eat up the internal circutry.

Also for a small fee I can tell you how to make millions of dollars per day by spending almost no time actually working. I do it and so can you.

Plus, I also have the deed for the Brooklyn bridge that I'd be willing to sell at a very resonable price waaay under market value along with some PRIME realestate I own in Afghanistan

:silly: :silly: :silly::silly:

 

[MX-727]

Originally posted by yzeater
That's not really that funny

No, the original message isn't that funny but the fact that there are people who believe these hoaxes is funny as hell. Or maybe just sad.

 

[Tom Dixon]

I feel like a complete idiot. I have fallen for the biggest April fools joke in the history of mankind. Just a minute ago, I read in the local paper that this letter that I posted was fake. KX - 727, Mike T, and gasgasman, you three saw right through it. I geuss I'm just a gulible 15 yr. old who tried to save some people from having $1000 paper weights. Now that I think about it, it would almost be impossible to "clean" the internet. :mad: :mad: :mad:

 

[Jeff Gilbert]

Originally posted by Tom Dixon
I feel like a complete idiot. I have fallen for the biggest April fools joke in the history of mankind. Just a minute ago, I read in the local paper that this letter that I posted was fake. KX - 727, Mike T, and gasgasman, you three saw right through it. I geuss I'm just a gulible 15 yr. old who tried to save some people from having $1000 paper weights. Now that I think about it, it would almost be impossible to "clean" the internet. :mad: :mad: :mad:

No sweat Tom, what could it have hurt for people to turn off their computer anyway. It's the thought that counts, right? I wish that we could clean the internet that easily, think of all the dead links that are out there, they probably make up more than half of what's there.

 

[MX-727]

All you had to say, Tom, was that you never thought anyone would take you post seriously. ;)

It's no biggie. Like Jeff said, with everything turned off, there is no internet, just cabling and phone lines.

 

[MikeT]

No prob Tom, Sometimes it's hard to tell whats a hoax and what is not. The BEST lies always have some truth in them. The truth in that hoax is that there are many dead links out there. We have all fallen for a hoax before. :)

 

[Maru16]

One thing i am curious about though, IS it possible to actually clean the 'net?
I mean, can't they remove dead links? Or no?

 

[Tom Dixon]

I don't think they could unless they cleaned all of the severs.

 

[e.c.bert]

I have accually seen in the early days; where the Geeks would purge their work files into the web when the job was done to open up the cash value of their lap tops. Unfortunately, there are too many repetative links for the same sight that cover pages of browser space. The only future for the net in my mind is through forums like this one; who could potentionally expand their sight to embrase additional pages based on the same format of roll out experation; and more paying advertisers.