Michael Jackson Takes Down the Internet

According to cnet.com's Tom Krazit, the news about Michael Jackson's passing has been so huge it broke the internet. Well, maybe not break the internet, but it definitely slowed it down to a crawl! I really noticed how slow it was yesterday as I was trying to upload pictures (it took nearly all day to upload 72 pictures!), but I thought it was just my connection because it's really slow anyways so I didn't reallt think anything about it. But apparently it was the whole web!

Hundreds of millions of fans flocked to their computers in search of Michael Jackson videos, songs, podcasts, music videos, news, memorabilia, anything that might have to do with him, and the internet just couldn't take it any more. As cnet's Molly Wood would have probably said it, "The tubes were clogged up big time". Just look at the charts on iTunes as of this writing: Michael Jackson has 7 out of the 10 top songs bought, 9 out of the 10 top albums bought, 9 out of the 10 top music videos bought, even 3 out of the top 5 ringtones bought. And that's just in the past few days! Thrillercast, a podcast apparently started by an avid MJ fan, is even in the top 5 podcasts downloaded, even though it hasn't had any new episodes since October, 2008.


Michael Jackson was a great entertainer. He's obviously touched many lives. It's just amazing to me that he could slow down the whole interweb enough to make a noticable difference! Way to go, Mike. Rest in Peace.