From CNET.com….
Today will be remembered as the day the internet broke. On Tuesday morning, many of the websites we rely on daily, including Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, Pinterest and, unfortunately, CNET went offline due to a major outage at a service called Fastly.
Everywhere you looked, there were 503 errors and people complaining they couldn’t access key services and sites.
At around 2.58 a.m. PT/5.58 a.m. ET, Fastly noted an error on its status update page that said: “we’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN [content delivery network] services.”
Shortly thereafter, reports of major news publications including the BBC, CNN and the New York Times being offline emerged on Twitter. Twitter itself was still running, although the server that hosted its emojis went down, leading to some odd-looking tweets.
