IP: Blackout in New England -- do read the comment from BBN --

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From Edupage


More than 200 New England businesses experienced a four-hour Internet
blackout Thursday evening after an explosion knocked out electrical power
in the Boston area.  One person was killed in the blast, which overloaded a
panel switch at MIT, causing a fire and cutting off Internet access to BBN
Planet customers.  Access resumed around 10:00 in the evening.  The speed
with which the incident happened made it impossible to reroute traffic,
said a BBN spokesman.  (TechWire 8 Aug 97)