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ISP help desk manager fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

Friday November 7, 2025. 08:29 AM , from TheRegister
Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes …
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