An assortment of aggrieved AT&T subscribers:

"I couldn't use my home phone, I couldn't use my cell phone, I couldn't use my computer. I was miserable."

"I worry about people that don't have a car," Lijon said.

"We literally feel like were on an island right now," Nguyen said. "It's bringing us back to the Stone Age."

From the archive:

To be sure, time marches on.

Yet for many Californians, the looming demise of the "time lady," as she's come to be known, marks the end of a more genteel era, when we all had time to share.

Zak Ryman:

I think a lot of people don't have time to Twitter.

It just takes too long to compose a message with 140 characters, and then you start getting bombarded by a few tweets and it's like, hundreds of characters that you have to read.

Samantha Power:

There are great benefits to connectedness, but we haven't wrapped our minds around the costs.

Neal Stephenson:

Hey, wait a minute, the hacker tourist says to himself, I thought AT&T was the enemy.

Sabotage attacks knock out phone service