When NYT Site Goes Down, Journalists Turn To Jokes

What happens when one of the most-trafficked news sites goes down for more than an hour mid-day and mid-week? Well, journalists and readers turn to other ways to amuse themselves with jokes and speculation about why the New York Times site was offline from sometime in the 11 a.m. hour to slightly after 1 p.m. today.

If you tried to load the page (which seems to be back up again now), this is what you saw:

The site is now, finally, loading for me, but I didn’t see an actual explanation for the lunch-hour outage there.

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