“This basic architecture is 50 years old, and everyone is online,” Cerf noted in a video interview over Google Hangouts, with a mix of triumph and wonder in his voice. “And the thing is not collapsing.”
The Internet, born as a Pentagon project during the chillier years of the Cold War, has taken such a central role in 21st Century civilian society, culture and business that few pause any longer to appreciate its wonders — except perhaps, as in the past few weeks, when it becomes even more central to our lives.
Unless you're browsing reddit without logging in, you can just set the old reddit theme from your account settings so you don't need to use the old. prefix :)
And if you're browsing on mobile, you need to request a desktop website, otherwise it switches to the new version anyway. Took me so long to figure out, so many annoying attempts to replace www with old in safari, and losing the selection after misclicking.
Seems to be mixed for me, BBC News and Sport works but stuff like Weather, iPlayer (video streaming) and Sounds (audio streaming) have died. I guess the BBC is big enough that different bits of the site run off different solutions (perhaps news and sport are still in spirit running off "news.bbc.co.uk" instead of the main servers?).
reddit, stackoverflow, github, paypal, pypi, twitter, twitch, NYT, CNN, BBC, the Guardian...
edit: wow, even Amazon.com relies on Fastly for some of its edge caches!