Closed Doors

Newsweek, February, 2000

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Yahoo: First hit Monday morning, the portal was immobilized for three hours; at times availability ranged from zero to 10 percent

Buy.com: Next down was this e-commerce site, hit on Tuesday morning; it never went totally black, but availability dropped to a low of 9.4 percent

eBay: The auction house was almost totally incapacitated for hours Tuesday afternoon; a second attack was thwarted the next day

CNN.com: Tuesday afternoon, the site was crippled from 4:45 to 5:30, when less than 5 percent of users could reach the home page

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Amazon.com: Tuesday afternoon the bookseller was slammed; from 5 to 5:45, it took users 380 seconds to connect to the ...