Vidyarthiplus (V+) - Indian Students Online Education Forum

July 17, 1997
Major disruption in sending most e-mail messages
A programming error temporarily threw the Internet into disarray in a preview of the difficulties that inevitably accompany a world dependent on e-mail, the World Wide Web, and other electronic communications
At 2:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, a computer operator in Virginia ignored alarms on the computer that updated Internet address information, leading to problems at several other computers with similar responsibilities. The corruption meant most Internet addresses could not be accessed, resulting in millions of unsent e-mail messages.

Yep! due to a programming error that results in millions of unsent e-mails.

The Internet suffers
one of the largest e-mail disruptions ever due to a programming error that
results in millions of unsent e-mails.