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http://www.theregister.co.uk/991222-000015.htmlPosted 22/12/99 12:28pm by Tim Richardson
Y2K-watch Web site warns of economic collapse
Armchair Armageddon watchers looking to see the New Year in with a Y2K bang can find out whether the doom-mongers were right by checking out a fiery Web site just seconds into the new millennium.
Inferno2000.com is to rig up connections with what it claims are 2000 of the most important Internet servers in the world, including aol.com, msn.com and victoriassecrets.com.
It will also survey servers belonging to nuclear power plants.
Within 30 seconds of the date changing from "99" to "00" Inferno2000 will know whether these crucial sites will have survived the much hyped date transition.
If the light next to each Web site remains green then all is well. If they flash red, then the site is not responding, although it may not necessarily de down to the bug.
If over five per cent of the servers polled are down, economic collapse could be just around the corner, say those behind the site. Which is a nice cheery thought so close to Christmas, don't you think. .
-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 22, 1999
victoriassecret.com? Whatever...
-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), December 22, 1999.
I just looked at the site. If they can pull it off, it could be interesting. And they do seem to have run the gamut of just about every "standard" .com site. Even victoriassecret.com (which I'm sure you'll be relieved to know, is functioning just fine as of this writing).
-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), December 22, 1999.
How asinine. You won't be able to get to Inferno2000.com because you won't have any electricity and neither will they.
-- (its@coming.soon), December 22, 1999.
How assinine. If I truly believed the power was going to be going off, I wouldn't be wasting my time trolling a forum. ;p
-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 22, 1999.
Believe what you want. It won't make any difference in 9 days.
-- (its@coming.soon), December 22, 1999.