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It's the 1990s, and this small startup needs to get online on a tiny budget -- which means a pilot fish there has to cobble together a Linux server from leftover parts.

"Things were working swimmingly for the first few weeks," says fish. "The server ran our corporate email and served up a simple web site.

"But suddenly it developed a bad case of the 'bouncies.' Someone would complain that the server was down, I'd verify and reboot. This happened multiple times in the same morning, and each time I left my desk and walked through the QA department to the corner of the open office where we stashed the 'server farm,' where potential investors could marvel at the blinky lights.

Do you remember where you were on Amazon Prime Day Chances are you were glued to a laptop, tablet or phone and logging on to Amazon. According to Hitwise, 89 million people in the UK visited Amazon on Prime Day, a 10.3% increase over 2017. One in every 20 UK web visits went to Amazon.co.uk. Globally it was the biggest day of sales in Amazon’s h