The BBC website was attacked and the Internet thought the world had ended

UPDATED: 2 p.m. GMT, with attack details BRISTOL, England — Early risers on New Year's Eve hoping to catch up on the news, listen to the radio or get a head start to an iPlayer binge were cruelly met with dreaded "500 error" messages when they tried to access anything on the BBC website. A BBC News story said that a a "distributed denial of service" (DDoS) web attack technique had taken down its website The corporation hasn't confirmed or denied that such an attack happened, but said around mi...