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Jacko's Death Grinds the Internet to a Halt

Posted Jun 25th 2009 7:11PM by TMZ Staff

In the moments following Michael Jackson's death -- so many people rushed to the Internet, that it practically stopped the entire WWW in its tracks.

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, AIM -- just a few of the scores of major web sites bombed by a tidal wave of traffic. Most of the sites still worked, but the epically high traffic numbers caused them all to move at a snail's pace.

The last time the 'net had this kind of traffic -- Obama's inauguration.

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1. RIP!!!

THANKS FOR ALL THE UP TO THE MINUTE INFO TMZ!!!

Posted at 7:29PM on Jun 25th 2009 by JANE DOE

2. Thank you for all that you do TMZ!

Posted at 7:30PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Skys

3. Michael Jackson, the singer, died a loing time ago. RIP

Posted at 7:31PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Child AbuseWatch.NET

4. Texting as well! as I was trying to text everyone of the news at 6pm EST, I had to resend my texts 3x bc they were not going through!

Posted at 7:30PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Annie

5. Twitter is f*cking stupid,

Posted at 7:30PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Lamborghini

6. This is big as when Pricess Diana died......................or bigger

Posted at 7:53PM on Jun 25th 2009 by JWC

7. we pray for the entire family, RIP michael,

Posted at 7:32PM on Jun 25th 2009 by love mj

8. Hopefully there's some kind of monetary restitution available to the hundreds, maybe thousands of children he shared his bed with.

Posted at 7:34PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Cleveland-West_Side

9. www.livejournal.com isnt working either.

Posted at 7:34PM on Jun 25th 2009 by uthoughtwrong17

10. While he had a good music career, his personal life war on the downhill. I'm not surprised by this. Oh, and by the way, the internet did Not stop in it's track.

Posted at 7:34PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Non. Michael fan

11. livejournal too!

Posted at 7:36PM on Jun 25th 2009 by Liz

12. Above all other Earthly possessions, health is the great equalizer.

Posted at 7:34PM on Jun 25th 2009 by The Observer

13. RIP Michael Jackson. No matter how strange you have become over the past decade, nobody can take back what you have done in your career!

Check out more about Michael at The Campus Socialite!
http://www.precioustimeny.com/blog/?p=1683

Posted at 7:36PM on Jun 25th 2009 by The Campus Socialite

14. I wouldn't wish death on anyone, but lets just hope whoever he encounters up there punishes him more justly for what he's done than those that did down here.

Posted at 7:36PM on Jun 25th 2009 by sissy

15. TMZ led the way again, way to go guys, while the "legit" press was stumbling over their bumblies, TMZ was kicking ass again, kudos to Harvey and staff..

Posted at 7:38PM on Jun 25th 2009 by SHOOTER12

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