The great New York Times outage of 2013 is over. No one knows exactly why it went down, but the Gray Lady is back online after a two-hour crash. Speculation that it was the result of a cyberattack appears to be unfounded, with the Times saying, via Twitter, that the issue seemed to be internal. News of the outage (which leads to a page with the text Http/1.1 Service Unavailable) quickly spread on Twitter, with many speculating whether the source could be traced to a hack attack—or whether it had anything to do with the 10th anniversary of the massive Northeast blackout of 2003. "This would be a good time to be a print subscriber to the paper," quipped a Times reporter, who noted that people in the newsroom waited calmly as presumably frantic tech people tried to fix the problem.
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