Internet War?
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 20, 2003 at 3:20:47 PM
You know how WWII was called the radio war and Veitnam was the TV war and the Gulf the Cable TV war? People are calling this the internet war.
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But the limited nature of the assault, and the timing of the strike--which came late on Wednesday evening in the United States when many Americans were at home watching television rather than in front of their computers at work--meant that any fears of Internet gridlock and outages appeared to be unfounded. Yahoo's news site saw about three times more traffic than it would have in a typical hour directly after President Bush told Americans in a speech that the United States had launched a war with Iraq, according to spokeswoman Joanna Stevens.