June 2009
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The great reboot
When we hit bottom, we lost hope. We had to find a new hope.
When it all went wrong, we threw ourselves into our grubby little entertainments. They were all we had left. That’s when it happened. On November 26, 2009, at 11:32 GMT, 35 million people watched “Gonad Monkey” at the exact same moment. “Gonad Monkey” was a YouTube sensation, for who could resist a slow-motion shot of a monkey kicking a soccer ball into a referee’s private parts, over a kazoo version of “Flight of the Bumblebee.” The overwhelming number of simultaneous connections kicked the world’s servers into catastrophic failure. “Gonad Monkey” and its enthusiasts had broken the Internet. And we couldn’t get it back.
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