Summary of The Day Microsoft Campus Crashed - Bedlam at Microsoft!

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Microsoft's campus went into bedlam in 1997 when the mail system crashed. The problem was solved by repairing the bug in the MTA, and by limiting who could send email. A decade later, people still remember the company's network crash, and decided to have a live stream on Sunday, February 28th.

• 00:00:00 The Microsoft Bedlam Dl3 incident happened on October 14, 1997, and is remembered as the day email became a dominant form of communication. Before that, different methods were used to disseminate news, such as phone trees.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses the day Microsoft crashed, October 14, 1997. At the time, Microsoft had a hundred thousand mailboxes, many of which were simply aliases. An employee noticed their email address was on a new distribution list and sent an email to the list itself. This triggered a chain of emails that created millions of messages.
• 00:10:00 In 1997, Microsoft's campus went into bedlam when the mail system crashed. The problem was solved by repairing the bug in the MTA, and by limiting who could send email. A decade later, people still remember the company's network crash, and decided to have a live stream on Sunday, February 28th.