Geocaching Down, Too

Courtesy Mashable!  Fri, 07/03/2009 - 13:45

Today a fire hit a major datacenter in Seattle, taking money processor Authorize.Net down .

This has caused many web-based financial transactions to grind to a halt, but Authorize.Net isn’t the only website that’s gone offline today.

Another popular website has fallen, Geocaching.com , a worldwide GPS-based treasure hunting game, leaving thousands of people trying to figure out just what’s going on and why it went down.

Wikipedia explains the game’s worldwide reach:

Geocaching...


 

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