# What's with the Beeb

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-beeb/358538
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 28, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-beeb/358538 "2006-05-28T13:53:07Z")
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### Author: ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-beeb/358538/1 "2006-05-28T13:53:07Z")

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Try as I might, I can’t access the BBC News website this morning. Is it the Java earthquake story, the news of Jolie-Pitt baby or the traffic generated by some other cataclysm that’s affecting the site?

- and is there a SDMB law that states that the moment you post about not being able to access a website, it suddenly becomes available again? 😃

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### Author: ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-the-beeb/358538/2 "2006-05-28T14:56:28Z")

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I can pull up BBC news just fine. Here, [UK version](http://news.bbc.co.uk/). 🙂 Maybe whatever the problem was has been resolved?