Day in Tech History

Day in Tech History


January 15, 1990: AT&T Reboots

January 14, 2019

1990 – AT&T suffers the oddest outage nationwide. A switch in New York crashed, then rebooted. This caused the other switches linked to the New York switch to also reboot. The cascade continued on until all 114 switches were rebooting on 6 second inter...