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Toxteth_OGrady

DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET FROM 12:01 AM GMT ON APR. 1 TO 12:01 AM GMT, APR 2!!

*** *** Attention ***

It's that time again!

As many of you know, each leap year 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
Apr. 1 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on Apr. 2. 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.

Kim Dereksen
Interconnected Network Maintenance staff
Main branch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sysops and others: Since the last Internet cleaning, the number of
Internet users has grown dramatically. Please assist us in alerting
the public of the upcoming Internet cleaning by posting this message
where your users will be able to read it. Please pass this message on to
other sysops and Internet users as well. Thank you.

shrek101

I am okay I downloaded the entire internet which will keep me happy for weeks

Poppy9

Is it the Internet's birthday then 1st APRIL

shrek101

YES

DVB_3

trafalgar_2

I hope they are using vinegar for best results:rotfl:

Poppy9

Now Traf you know vinegar won't work on its own. You need a pinch of bicarb, a handful of soda crystals and a heap load of elbow grease.;)

shrek101

Oh thats woman's work Joke

Me off to nighty night

trafalgar_2

Poppy9 wrote:

Now Traf you know vinegar won't work on its own. You need a pinch of bicarb, a handful of soda crystals and a heap load of elbow grease.;)

Very true:rotfl:

trafalgar_2

shrek101 wrote:

Oh thats woman's work Joke

Me off to nighty night

Love the smillies shrek......................very cute:D

amd

For next year..... the link that Shrek101 used to download the internet....

Download the Internet here

:rotfl: