It was a crisis moment. ABC News, one of Australia’s biggest websites that is visited by millions of people each day, had completely crashed.
There had been technical glitches before of course, but nothing like this. They usually resolved themselves pretty quickly, but this time something was clearly very wrong.
It was November 2019 and a major power outage had struck the ABC’s headquarters in the inner-Sydney suburb of Ultimo.
The impact started out small but escalated rapidly.
A time warp, a chicken, then nothing
First, we had a trip back in time, with the ABC News home page reverting back to news from around 2011. Julia Gillard had made a return as prime minister and the biggest business story of the day was the Australian dollar nearing parity with the greenback.
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Another slightly… unexpected… symptom of the technical problems was the appearance of a random…
