SYDNEY-Friday afternoon, a little-known computer program triggered an IT meltdown that took down digital infrastructure on a global scale.Seemingly all at once, millions of computers around the world became unusable and unable to be rebooted, showing what's known in the industry as the "Blue Screen of Death".
The ABC's broadcast systems were some of the earliest to be visibly affected, with computer after computer inexplicably breaking down, leaving journalists scrambling to deal with the exact issue they were trying to report on.
"It's possible we'll have difficulties updating this story due to computer systems affecting us here at the ABC," wrote the ABC's Joseph Dunstan on the blog at 4pm AEST.Meanwhile, the ABC's TV presenters continued to broadcast without teleprompters or on-screen graphics.
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