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When email stopped working past 500 miles
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In a legendary university network malfunction, an operating system update caused email servers to completely drop any digital message sent to a recipient further than 500 physical miles away. The specific timeout setting in the code accidentally matched the exact millisecond threshold it took light-speed data signals to travel roughly 500 miles over local cables.
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