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[quote author=Dakusan link=topic=86.msg90#msg90 date=1254130322]
<div class="MainSiteContent"><div style="font-weight:bold;">Original post for <a href="https://www.castledragmire.com/Posts/Election_Night_on_the_Internet">Election Night on the Internet</a> can be found at <a href="https://www.castledragmire.com/Posts/Election_Night_on_the_Internet">https://www.castledragmire.com/Posts/Election_Night_on_the_Internet</a>.
Originally posted on: 11/04/08 </div>
<p>I’m not going to get into politics in this post (nor will I generally ever); I just wanted to point out a few things that I saw on the Internet on election night that made me smile :-) .</p>
<center>Wikipedia actually errored out when I tried to get to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Barack Obama</a> soon after it was announced he won.
<img src="https://www.castledragmire.com/OtherContent/WikiBarack.png" width=602 height=327 alt="Wikipedia Down on Barack Obama">

I was also really surprised that <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/">Fox News</a> had up the following picture/announcement mere minutes after all the other stations reported Obama had won (when it was still only projections). I would have thought Fox News would hold out on announcing it to their viewers until it was more sure...
<img src="https://www.castledragmire.com/OtherContent/FoxNews.png" width=701 height=573 alt="Fox News Obama Wins"></center></div>
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Posted by: Dakusan

« on: September 28, 2009, 05:32:02 am »

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Original post for Election Night on the Internet can be found at https://www.castledragmire.com/Posts/Election_Night_on_the_Internet.
Originally posted on: 11/04/08

I’m not going to get into politics in this post (nor will I generally ever); I just wanted to point out a few things that I saw on the Internet on election night that made me smile :-) .

Wikipedia actually errored out when I tried to get to Barack Obama soon after it was announced he won.
Wikipedia Down on Barack Obama

I was also really surprised that Fox News had up the following picture/announcement mere minutes after all the other stations reported Obama had won (when it was still only projections). I would have thought Fox News would hold out on announcing it to their viewers until it was more sure...
Fox News Obama Wins

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