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With schools across the country beginning virtual classes this week, videoconferencing platform Zoom had an unexpected gift for all the schoolchildren in the form of a lengthy outage that affected the ability to conduct meetings and webinars. The outage affected North America and some parts of Europe.
Holy Cow @zoom_us is Down on a Super Busy Monday / we had a full calendar / guess Schools now have #ZoomDays added to #SnowDays pic.twitter.com/FsC7tCPqmg
— J. Michael Smith (@JMichael_Smith) August 24, 2020
Once people realized what was happening, guess what they did? That’s right, they took to Twitter to meme the **** out of the situation. I saw many people referring to it as a digital snow day, but as someone who grew up in New…