The Cloud is Down

@thecloudisdown.com

44 Followers 92 Following

https://thecloudisdown.com

A screen capture taken on January 22, 2026, showing the status page for Microsoft's cloud services is itself currently unavailable.
Image of the Canadian flag, from Wikimedia Commons
A photo of America Online CDs, versions 3 through 9. Version 3 gave you 50 free hours. By the time Version 9 rolled around, you got 1175. Lucky you. (Somewhere I surely have versions 1.0 and 2.0 on floppy disks.)
A photo of "The Internet in a Box," version 2.0. The package contained software for connecting Windows machines to the Internet (a TCP/IP stack, telnet and FTP clients, newsgroup readers, Compuserv... all the good stuff). It was purchased at a closeout sale, probably in about 1996.
A screen capture of "Sponsored Content" that appeared on thehill.com on 4/4/2025. It shows senior citizens lined up at the doors of the "Social SecuuririTty ADMiNiSTRATiON" building.