reports of massive worldwide internet outage

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Just warning you - obviously if you are on here then it hasn't hit you hard! But I have just lost google, and my work internet connection

I wish posters would stop saying “I’m alright Jack.”

Selfish gloaters. No help to others with serious problems.

For info the problems, especially the consequences for AF/KLM and the checkin and blue screens at Paris CDG were the lead item on the French lunchtime news…

https://www.ladepeche.fr/2024/07/19/panne-informatique-mondiale-compagnie-banques-televisions-qui-a-ete-impacte-par-la-mise-a-jour-defectueuse-de-crowdstrike-12091812.php

Yep, very serious issues in quite a lot of places.

But it is not the time to start emptying cash machines and panic buying toilet roll.

What? It’s more like information, we’re all in different places and even countries so it’s just a chat about where things work and where it doesn’t. No need for the sour face.

Information is fine.

Stupid statements with no detail, not fine.

Look above if you’re not sure.

Ok I will

Er, actually posters can chat here at whatever level they wish providing they aren’t breaking talk guidelines. No need to dismiss pps as selfish or stupid.

There are plenty of other places you can flounce off to look online if you would prefer a different type of discussion.

Still can’t see it, so what do you mean?

I don’t think it’s a case of selfish gloaters. It’s information and a kind of reassurance that it’s not worldwide and a fix should be on its way.

I thought someone from the NHS had said "don't worry we have a back up plan"? Though being the NHS it's probably down to the kind of people who arranged for the new computer systems, and they didn't work either

FWIW I've just been doing my passport renewal online, and that system's full of glitches too - wonder if it's another which has been affected?

Well no, it’s just highlighting some countries must be running on different systems?

It kind of irritates me that its being called a worldwide problem when its not, like as soon as something affects several major countries its considered global, like the other countries just don't exist any more.

Well said Natsku. I feel the same.

I think worldwide can reasonably be used to mean 'on all populated continents'. It doesn't need to mean every country.

Those of us affected have had an absolutely awful day. Really awful.
Have a bit of sympathy.
Flights cancelled, trains cancelled, ATMs not working, people stranded. In temperatures of 37°.
It is lovely that so many of you are absolutely fine. Many, many people are not.

But of course we have sympathy. It wouldn’t be normal not to. Hope tomorrow will be better.

It would be kind not to gloat about your bit of Europe not being affected.

Ok now you lost me. Have a good night.

no one is being unsympathetic, people saying they’re not having issues in various places will not change anything and is not unsympathetic it just is stating something on a forum.

Well I just checked a few mainland European news websites and they are all talking about it. And calling it "worldwide".

7 hours to do a 1.5 hour journey today. People sitting on the floor in stations and airports for hours. No information. I am absolutely exhausted and frazzled. We are so vulnerable to tech problems. It is frightening.

Aye, the good old days where everything was cash, which worked just fine... until the entire ATM system keeled over, which it used to do regularly, and everyone was screwed regardless.

Ive just got back from a hospital appointment where the consultants have sent out for stocks of paper and pens 😂my doctor said he had never hand written a medical note in his life before today

Not really frightening. Don’t they just need to learn from mistakes and test updates next time.

In January friends of ours were stuck in a queue together with more than 1000 cars in a severe snow storm for nearly 30 hours. No information how long it would take. Missed three flight. A nightmare, but you learn from it. You’d want to pack your hand bag well after that.