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Analyzing Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
- onecommentman 1y agoOne major failure event of this type that had nationwide repercussions was the “St. Valentines Day massacre” of 1990 that brought down the entire AT&T POTS long distance telephone network for a day. https://telephoneworld.org/landline-telephone-history/the-crash-of-the-att-network-in-1990/ https://telephoneworld.org/landline-telephone-history/the-cr... An amazing bug, when you consider it.