Today, the firewall at my college had some major issues. What else is new? They block things like Urban Dictionary and College Humor to be spiteful (we assume). Today, however, they blocked Google and all things associated therewith.
Talk about an uproar.
It was all over facebook (which went conveniently unblocked). The rage in the air was palpable. How can we use our check our e-mail, print our documents or search for anything without our beloved Gmail, Googledocs and Google itself? The world is coming to an end! The Mayans were wrong!
The websites unvictimized by this randomly horrific piece of hardware malfunction?
Facebook.
Twitter.
Cracked.
The Oatmeal.
Honestly. You'd think they WANT us to be bad students.
At least they blocked StumbleUpon.
They got it figured out now and everything is back to internet normalcy. It's good they did, too. The IT department would have had a bunch of angry college students who are dependent on Google's innovations to contend with and wouldn't have stood a chance.
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