The Day The Internet Crashed
What happened? What happened? On Tuesday June 8th, at around 10am GMT, dozens of the biggest websites in the world all went down at once. The outage affected a huge variety of sites, from PayPal to Shopify, Vimeo to HBO Max, and even the UK Government website as well as the prestigious New York Times. Sites were down for up to an hour as software engineers at the cloud computing provider, Fastly, worked furiously trying to identify and fix the problem....