On the morning of June 8, some of the biggest websites on the internet simultaneously went offline.
Online shoppers couldn’t access Amazon. Breaking news stories weren’t able to be published on The New York Times, CNN, or The Verge. Reddit went down, causing meme stock investors to congregate in the YouTube comments section of the Gangnam Style music video where they speculated the whole situation was a plot against them by hedge funds.
Well, we now know what caused some of the most popular websites to go down this week. It turns out there wasn’t some big conspiracy. However, the truth is still pretty bizarre. Read more…
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Source : One single CDN user took down the internet this week
