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Posted On: October 22th 2007
Posted By: Adam Coozer
Source: LiveScience |
Ah, my two favorite things - irony and dorkiness!
Power Outage Shuts Down Government Agency
Workers at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Va., have been sent home after a power outage forced the entire government agency to close.
The Web site of the NSF, an agency that played a major role in the development of the Internet, is also out of service, with only a brief note explaining the reason for the shutdown. Phone calls to the agency's media spokespeople went unanswered and voicemail failed to pick up.
A person at the agency's media hotline said workers had been sent home for the day.
The NSF created a networking protocal based on TCP/IP that was important in converting the Defense Department's ARPANET into the Internet we use today.
The NSF is a U.S. government agency that determines funding for research and education in science and engineering.
Read the full article here. |
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