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  • CelloMike
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    1 month ago

    A man did this in London in 1810, but with everything - chimney sweeps, piano deliveries, priests, lawyers, coal carts, doctors, undertakers, the archbishop of Canterbury…

    It brought the whole area to a standstill and the guy won a guinea in a bet and ran away to the countryside

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax

    • @kopasz7
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      281 month ago

      Wow. So this was probably the first reflection/amplification ddos in history.

      • @ngwoo
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        41 month ago

        I really hope the order of events is the actual order they happened in because the escalation is perfect