There’s a South Park episode from season 12 in which the town falls to chaos when the internet inexplicably stops working – and on Wednesday Australia woke up in it. Optus, one of Australia’s wireless carriers, was struck by a nationwide outage that commenced at 4am.
Our household didn’t know this detail when I woke to the sound of my husband in a frenzy of computer recabling as he tried to prepare for a 9am meeting.
