Third server blackout of 2008

The third blackout of 2008 occured on June 13, 2008, at approximately 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight time. It lasted for approximately 1 Hour and 45 Minutes.

Before the blackout
About 10 minutes before the blackout, players noticed that the friends list was offline, and that they could not buy, sell or withdraw Grand Exchange offers. Some players thought that a blackout was going to occur, while others simply dismissed that claim. At 11:30 AM, a involuntary massive log out started, with hundred's, if not thousands, of players being logged out per second, thus, making all of the Runescape worlds being empty in a very short time.

During the blackout
All players were unable to access any of the worlds, or the offical fourms. It is not known if players could access the Runescape Classic worlds during the blackout.

About 1 hour after the servers blacked out, a Jagex Mod posted a news article on the front page, stating:

"Telstra, one of our service providers, is currently experiencing technical difficulties. As a result, you will not be able to access the RuneScape game and a number of our website features. We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and we are assured our service provider is working hard to rectify this fault."

After the blackout
All Runescape worlds and the offical fourms were restored around 2:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time.

Mod Austin posted on the offical Runescape Fourms:

"We have been experiencing some technical difficulties which would have resulted in some of you losing connection from the game and our forums.

This issue has now been resolved! Please accept our apologies.

Your account may be showing as logged in still. Don't panic, this is just a side-effect of the server being down; you will be able to log in again as normal soon. During this time your character will not be in the game so you have no fear of dying or losing items from this server problem.

In the event of a server crash your account will be returned to play with the most recent version of that servers 'saved game' file. As such any trades, training, questing, or items gained that happened before the crash will be undone as your file returns to the most recent backup. It is not possible for us to return anything undone from this crash but as these saves happen every 15 minutes we are sure you will not have lost too much of your time and effort.

Thank you and apologies for the disruption and any inconvenience caused."

Trivia
During the blackout, the front page proclaimed that 347 Runescape Players were online during the riot. It is not known if all those players were Jagex Mods or if it was the last known server activity before the servers crashed.

All worlds except world 119 reported 0 players. World 119 reported that it was offline.

Some players thought it was unusual that the blackout occured on Friday the Thirteenth, proclaiming it to be supersticous. The only other time that a supersticous date occured was during the Falador Massicare.