Curious to See a DDOS in Action?

I’ve always wondered what a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) really looks like. Fortunately, there is now this pretty awesome video illustration of what it looks like:

How cool is that? This is what it looks like when it’s not under an attack:

This was made by using Logstalgia, a website access log visualization. Gizmodo provides more context about whose data this was, just thought it was freaking neat.