Pluto's Kiss and ALTIMIT OS

On December 24th, 2005 a virus created by a 10 year old hacker from Los Angeles shut down the entire internet for 77 minutes. The catastrophic event was named Pluto's Kiss. (冥王の口づけ)

On that day, all computers connected to the Internet crashed simultaneously around the globe. Additionally, all networked computer and communication network control systems were shut down.

The results were catastrophic; traffic lights shut down and planes collided in midair. In the United States, the automatic retaliatory systems malfunctioned, in a short time reaching a point of crisis. 77 minutes later, the global network was able to recover itself from the incident but the resulting chaos caused the United States' nuclear defense and automated counter-strike systems to be armed.

The incident was so damaging that United States President, Jim Stonecold, later resigned from office in January 2006 after taking full responsibility for the incident.

ALTIMIT was the only OS that had not been affected by the disaster. Later studies showed that the OS was constructed in such a way as to make it nearly immune to all known computer viruses.

These two factors convinced most of the world that ALTIMIT was a perfect OS, and it became the most widely sold operating system worldwide. With profits soaring, ALTIMIT went global, opening offices across the planet.

In 2007, the World Network Commission (WNC) passed a law stating that ALTIMIT was a required software for all computers, making its saturation of the worldwide market almost at 100%. Ever since then, ALTIMIT OS has been the only major operating system in the world. Few people could imagine a computer that didn't run off of ALTIMIT-based software. Coupled with the release of The World, the first online game released since Pluto's Kiss, support for the system was unrivaled.