Thanks to something called a distributed denial of service attack, several major Internet sites we’re inaccessible on Friday; leaving many of us in a terrifying state we haven’t experienced since the 1990s: Being left alone with our own thoughts. And one of those thoughts is that the communication and commerce engine that runs our businesses and our lives is more vulnerable to attack than we’d like to think. Here’s Wired with what we know about Friday’s massive East Coast Internet outage.

+ Gizmodo: Today’s brutal DDoS attack is the beginning of a bleak future. (I felt this way too, and then my connectivity came back and I went back to thinking about cats.)

+ The Atlantic: When the Entire Internet Seems to Break at Once. If the internet doesn’t get fixed soon, I’m going to have to remind myself how to fantasize to images in my own imagination.