Thursday, November 13, 2008

Sometimes the Internet Scares me a Little Bit

So I've been trying to figure out what the hell is up with Revver (the link doesn't work because the site is down).  It's kind of nerve racking since in about twelve hours I'm supposed to be uploading a video to a site that, for all intents and purposes, doesn't exist.

Google is fairly devoid of recent news, except this tidbit gleaned from Wikipedia: "As of November 12, 2008, Revver's site has been down for several days, so it may currently be defunct." Which is hardly encouraging.

But then I read this article, which is slightly older, and discovered something interesting.  My twitter got quoted.  Weird.  Oh, and there was also a plausible explanation for why revver is down ["they are in the middle of major migration from a CDN/provider to a tier 1 & top technology provider which “should make the quality of Revver videos displayed better then ever” (could take a few days)"].

But I was quoted and I could have never known.  Hell, I didn't know for almost two weeks.  And the funny thing is, I wasn't even worried about Revver in that tweet... more so my own inability to get videos online, on time.  But still, regardless of the quote being out of context, it's strange to be surfing the internet and all of a sudden, there's a picture of you, and some words you once typed, and you're all, "What the hell?  What am I doing here?"

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that the internet is weird sometimes.  And a little bit scary.

8 comments:

Asha said...

AHh!

Ian said...

I know!

Andrea Wrobel said...

That's hilarious.

gord said...

And now the world knows that you think you're an idiot. How unfortunate. If only you had the foresight to type something positive/not necessarily true about yourself...

Anyways, that's a shame about the third episode being in limbo now. Hopefully Revver comes back up soon.

Ian said...

Haha... yeah...

Revver actually just came back to life. Episode Three is still going to be late though... probably live noon-ish tomorrow.

Unknown said...

You're internet famous!

Ian said...

Haha! That's what I wanted to say, except I think it's a joke that no one gets, except you and me.

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