# was the board down for anybody but me for the last several hours? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 20, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895 "2007-04-20T05:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/1 "2007-04-20T05:02:16Z")
I’ve been unable to reach the Dope for several hours, but now I don’t see anyone else mentioning it, and there doesn’t seem to have been any real break in others’ postings. Just me? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/2 "2007-04-20T05:12:25Z")
Not just you. I was unable to load anything but the front page from about midday till just now. I mentioned it on Fathom early this evening and another person was having the same experience. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/3 "2007-04-20T06:00:05Z")
I have been able to access it over the past five hours with no problem. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/4 "2007-04-20T06:19:38Z")
Perhaps there was a cave-in on just one of the Intarweb’s tunnels. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/5 "2007-04-20T08:59:05Z")
I think the Interweb was experiencing some glitches last night; I had some sites I could get to no problem, but others I couldn’t get to at all. But according to my “last on,” I was here at 10:35 last night! I wasn’t getting any error messages for sites I couldn’t get to either, it was most annoying. _laughs_ Of course, the sites I most wanted to visit were the ones I couldn’t get to, isn’t that always the way it happens?! Seems to be working okay now (crosses fingers and knocks on wood three times!). ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/6 "2007-04-20T12:34:54Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Perhaps there was a cave-in on just one of the Intarweb’s tunnels. [/QUOTE] Not tunnels – [tubes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes). ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/7 "2007-04-20T14:41:07Z")
[QUOTE=JeffB] Not tunnels – [tubes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes). [/QUOTE] :smack: Well, damn. I’d better go look up the good senator for an in-depth tutorial before I embarrass myself any further. :o ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/8 "2007-04-20T16:52:00Z")
I didn’t notice anything at all. It couldn’t have been a global server problem. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/9 "2007-04-21T02:04:24Z")
I’m gonna suggest that a few double posts today would indicate that something occurred. Whose problem it was, I do not know. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/10 "2007-04-21T06:53:05Z")
No problems for me really. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-board-down-for-anybody-but-me-for-the-last-several-hours/400895/11 "2007-04-21T10:40:33Z")
I didn’t have any problems Thursday night, but last night (9:30ish EDT) it took forever to load (several minutes) and was very slow once it loaded. GT