[acnielsen guy]

Have at it guys.

[Petronski]

Well, if you disappear, I'd say you were right.

[chasio649]

btt

[SubMareener]

Nice try, but we talked this one out. ;-)

[TonyInOhio]

Are you sure you were logged in?

[Honcho Bongs]

Isn't there a "tinfoil hat" section for posts like this?

[mhking]

It was a backbone server blip.

Nothing to see here; move along.

[Glenn]

Clean up on aisle 666!

[Revolting cat!]

Have you tried:

?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Al Gore was just doing a little fine-tuning last night  ...

[Mad Dawgg]

"Does that make sense of the strange happening at 4:15am this morning?"

Add to this strange incident that Mrs. Dawgg lost two socks in the Dryer this morning and I think we have a disturbing trend developing.

[SGCOS]

Cleaning out the Internet is an annual activity, performed at the least intrusive time of day.

It addresses performance problems such as removing unused files that do nothing but take up space, and defragmenting ip packets.

[Senator Pardek]

Why is Donahue still on?

[TLBSHOW]

I new I should of stayed up last night.

[RedWhiteBlue]

"Shower time" for the internet.

[2oakes]

There's pictures on the net?

[Cicero]

If I tell you, I'll have to kill you.

[js1138]

I'd say you two caught something from unsafe browsing. Either that or Big Brother took a momentary interest in why you were exchanging picture files at 4:15 AM.

[spunkets]

" That failure is itself a rare anomaly. I understand that all graphics are on separate directories and accessed independently, so a block could easily be placed on them. The success of the block would be a sufficient test of a takedown of the entire Internet.

Not really. A pic is just a file. Could be anywhere. I leave pics all over the place and it took a long time before I ever created a directory named, "images." I still have my Christmas decorations up. So if they want to take down the internet, let 'em have it. All they can say is, "All your mess are belong to us."

[DainBramage]

take over wells rigged with explosives. They must be taken over before anyone knows the war has started.

I live in Texas and have to date never seen an oil or gas well with internet service.

[MineralMan]

If internet text is showing up, but not images, suspect your browser or graphics engine on your own PC, not the internet. I noted that the other person in question found that after she rebooted, everything worked fine.

Without knowing browser name and version, along with OS name and version, there's little else I can contribute.

However, there's no selective way to block graphics from the web on an internet-wide basis.

If you have more details, I'll try to help. Otherwise, it sounds like a fairly common glitch on the PCs end. A reboot apparently fixed it, and nobody else noticed such a thing.