Hook: "At 10:03 a.m. on March 14, 1996, visitors to example.com encountered a stark HTML error page: 'Service temporarily unavailable.' Within an hour, comp.sys.web threads reported users locked out of critical services." Background: (two paragraphs summarizing 1996 web context). Timeline: (three rows filled with sources and links). Conclusion: (one paragraph about lessons learned).
Before the crash, a webmaster named CoolDude95 set up a page with a JavaScript script that updated a counter every time the page loaded. During the crash, the Archive spider got stuck in this loop. crash 1996 internet archive
"The car crash is a fertilizing rather than a destructive event." Hook: "At 10:03 a