BatMUD is the one I played a long time ago, and has been around for 35 years now. I honestly don't know how active it is these days.

https://www.bat.org

During the Summer of 1997, I stayed at my university and had a job at the computer lab in the basement of the library. We had four Windows 95 PCs, four Mac Quadras, and then tons of VT terminals. I specifically remember the one at the lab assistants desk being a VT-320. Anyway, it was enough for me to telnet to BatMUD. I got all the way up to level 32 or so (and made some friends!) before I stopped playing. Man, that was a great Summer. Well ... it was great until I got cheated on but that's a whole other story. :-p

I just went to the site and started watching a video -- seems to be working for me, at least. YMMV

Except this one is not on the windshield.

Looks like a bug that I hope someone will have a fun time fixing.

You wouldn't imagine ...

I have seen API calls you people wouldn’t believe.

Requests hanging off the edge of the load balancer, Ethernet tubes glittering in the dark.

Latency logs reporting some API calls that took longer than the age of the universe.

Their means and percentiles burning on the shoulders of weekly reports.

Plot points dying at the edge of y axis

... like tears in the rain.

Time to reboot

Indeed and Voigt-Kampf the signed from the unsigned, dynamic types from static.

Fixing bugs. At Apple. OK.

Which constitution would that be, again?

Maybe? Maybe not? It depends on the nature of the outage and how motivated their customers are to switch over to a new service.

The good news is that we're just living in a perfect natural experiment:

Cloudflare just caused a massive internet outage costing millions of dollars worldwide, in part due to a very sloppy mistake that definitely ought to have been prevented (using Rust's “unwrap” in production ). Let's see how many customers they lose because of that and we'll see how big are their incentives. (If you look at the evolution of their share value, it doesn't look like the incident terrified their shareholders at least…)

That experiment already happened last year with Crowdstrike. Nothing detrimental happened. Their revenue actually increased and stock went up

Stock went up because if they can cause a lot of damage without repercussions they must be very valuable.

We definitely had bots on IRC in the 90s.

I agree. Lots and lots of them died, as result.

is this how modern survival of the fittest work now?

There was a joke going around for awhile renaming Darwin awards as Herman Cain awards. A bit mean, but it had some merit.