How and Why the Internet Broke—while it scares me that so much of the internet could be affected by one company, particularly one controlled by WorldCom, it’s good to know why I couldn’t get to my own site through SWBell the other day. While this is obviously a huge blunder on their part, overall I still like UUNet. Last summer I got a personal tour of their network operations center and I was very impressed with the people working there and the infrastructure they had. It was also humorous how obviously some parts of the NOC were for show, such as the windows that turned opaque with the flip of a switch and the extremely large big screen televisions overlooking the main room which “are more for you [visitor] then them [workers].” The one they did say they watched closely was the one on the Weather Channel, because apparently weather can have a large effect on their operations.