What was the biggest IT disaster until now?
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Microsoft !  They are regularly the cause of all computer related problems !\n\nOther than that I would say the millennium bug - nothing ever happened.  Then there are the little viruses such as Nimda and Blaster - they knocked companies out for a week or so.\n\nI work on an IT help desk and I find it amazing at how people panic as soon as their PC breaks !\n\nI had a woman call me at the beginning of this week demanding I drive to the London office (I'm based in Preston - NW England so about a 7 hr car journey) becasue she couldn't type a letter to somebody.  \n\nI explained that she would have to wait until next week for a replacement and to get a pen and piece of paper and revert to the old skool method of "Writing a letter".\n\nShe then demanded to speak to my manager as she "hadn't heard anything so absurd in her life" and that "people don't write letters these days"\n\nJust wait - give it 10-20 years and EMP (electro magnetic pulse) will be the next weapon of choice for terrorists - just set of an EMP device and for miles around everything from toasters to PCs will be rendered useless.\n\nIncluding any radar systems used to track such devices - any form of communication used by the military, the jets that are scrambled in extreme cases !\n\nPeople are far to reliant on technology these days !\n\nJust like NASA spending millions of dollars producing a pen that can write in zero gravity to be used by their astronauts in space as there were problems getting ink flowing without gravity !!!\n\n - the Russians used a pencil !
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The internet.  Enormous, has almost literally made the world smaller.
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Over the last decade, my whole career has been affected by computers.  I left my "real" job back in '96 to start an Internet Design company, which everyone told me was insane.  I worked and slaved over it for years, gained lots of clients, respect, awards, an office full of employees and then sold the company 2 years ago for a lot of $$$, and now I work out of my home as a freelancer helping other start-up companies do the same thing. \n\nWhen I was in college in the 80's, I never ever dreamed my life would turn into what it has.
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Obviously a whole lot, especially with DW having to start over, and my Internet dying again.
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tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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I hack on my machine all the time.  Oh,  you mean crack.  My machine was cracked in 1996 exactly 2 days after it was hooked up to the internet via broadband.  Back then I was a little nieve and thought that I was pretty anonymous and safe.  Boy what a learning experience.
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The internet started off as a little speck of dust that exploded...or was that the big bang theory?
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There are so many issues with computers you will have to specify the exact problem.
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http://home.att.net/~thehessians/disasterwatch.html There you go!! Hope you like it.
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The worst is Allstate.  You don't know how bad a company is until you have to make a claim agains them.
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If you have Windows XP edition just restore your computer to an earlier date b4 the disaster occured.
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NORTON!!!\n\nEnd of story.....Andrew/FreeBird
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Aside from the obvious? (World Trade Center, a 33 BILLION dollar loss!!!)\n\nOn Monday, February 1, 1999, an explosion and fire ripped through the aging power plant at Ford Motor Company's famous Rouge facility in Dearborn, Michigan, killing six civilians and injuring 38, 14 of them seriously. Resulting in about $1 billion in property damage, the fire was one of the most expensive industrial accidents in U.S. history. It was also the largest human-caused insurance loss of the year.\n\nNot a good one?  Go to NFPA.ORG, select "research and reports", under the pulldown navigate to "fire statistics" and "historical" from there you can select a list by largest fire losses.  Again, looking at the top 25 over the past 100 years, even adjusted for time, the World Trade Center fire is more that 2-24 combined.  WOW!\n\nI selected the one I mentioned, because it fits your search criteria AND you can call up many detailed reports about it.\n\nCut and paste the link in sources...
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Big heavy computers/servers falling. Hurting back when inserting cd rom. Hot server room breaking man to sweat.
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Yeah, long ago.   There's been worse events in the world.  Build a bridge America and get over it.
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6 months ago I nearly slammed into a school bus full of children while I was messing with a CD.\nIt was my wake up call and now I'm very careful!
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It was a mess for my grandfolks.  Truly a disaster.