At around 11 am on 8th June a huge internetoutage occurred affecting major news, social media, commerce and even government websites.
The UK government website was down as well as Amazon and Reddit. News sites such as the BBC, CNN, New York Times, Independent, Vice were also down as well as PayPal, Etsy Twitch and HBO Max. Pictures were failing to load as well.
The issue appears to have been a result of a problem as Fastly, a cloud-based computing service that provides services to many of these aforementioned websites.
A s you can imagine scenes on Twitter resembled something from a zombie apocalypse with pandemonium running wild and people asking ‘what do we do now?’
A modern philosophical question: if the internet is down, does this create more or less work for us?
— Luke McGee (@lukemcgee) June 8, 2021
everything on the internet is exploding and they leave the worst website of all, this one, running. there is no justice
— Imogen West-Knights (@ImogenWK) June 8, 2021
Told ya https://t.co/8DUvvABGzS
— David Squires (@squires_david) June 8, 2021
With the internet down people flock to twitter for their news, which is the equivalent of looking in the fridge for food and not finding any so having to search the bin instead.
— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) June 8, 2021
I love that Twitter is still up, but the service that handles it's emojis is down
— Dan Hett (@danhett) June 8, 2021
(ノ°Д°）ノ︵ ┻━┻ -
Right, who Googled Google?
— Graham Corking (@GRCorking) June 8, 2021
Is this where we all go back to MySpace
— Victoria Richards (@nakedvix) June 8, 2021
The internet: goes down
— Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. 💸 (@ParikPatelCFA) June 8, 2021
Everyone: *let's see what twitter is saying*
Trying to find out what’s going on with the internet by asking around in the foyer of Habbo Hotel
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 8, 2021
BREAKING: The Internet.
— Christopher Wylie 🏳️🌈 (@chrisinsilico) June 8, 2021
If this internet outage persists and I'm forced to interact with a real human, there will be consequences.
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) June 8, 2021
Where were you when the internet fell over?
— Cale the LettuceHead (@LettuceHead17) June 8, 2021
My advice, head to the winchester, have a pint and wait for it to blow over.#outage pic.twitter.com/6OrKg3jFE0
Of course, in a time of crisis, the internet loves nothing more than a good meme which is basically a coping method now, isn’t it?
Move @fastly and break things, am I right?
— Joe Hart 🏳️🌈 (@JoeHart) June 8, 2021
England have won 100% of their international trophies without a functioning internet
— Duncan Alexander (@oilysailor) June 8, 2021
Millennium bug was never going to sit the pandemic out
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 8, 2021
Happy @CrapBroadband Day!!! https://t.co/Ko4MWb4Vho
— Joe Lycett (@joelycett) June 8, 2021
breaking news --> broken news
— Rose Stokes (@RoseStokes) June 8, 2021
The one responsible for what seems to be happening to the internet pic.twitter.com/bk9OnRa9m7
— Ross Miller (@rosstmiller) June 8, 2021
Half the internet right now 😂 #internetdown pic.twitter.com/1QiUlsDiFW
— Ross Kelly (@rossmkelly92) June 8, 2021
Ask Jeeves watching all the websites break down pic.twitter.com/W1fDdrk8lR
— Sophie Hall (@SophLouiseHall) June 8, 2021
Reddit, Twitch, Amazon, AWS, Spotify and half of major internet web sites are down, and Everyone is rushing to Twitter to check if it’s true.
— SVM (@ShivamChatak) June 8, 2021
Twitter rn: pic.twitter.com/Sem2SS2izV
"BATTLE STATIONS! BATTLE STATIONS!! I AM CALLING BATTLE STATIONS!! THE INTERNET IS BROKEN!!! ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR!!!" pic.twitter.com/aycJY6O5BR
— Andydrewz 🏳️🌈💙 (@Andydrewz) June 8, 2021
The Internet right now: pic.twitter.com/EqrK0UJTR5
— Sharks Daily 🦈 (@SharksEveryDayy) June 8, 2021
What did Jen do to the Internet?#CyberAttack #InternetShutdown pic.twitter.com/Xo8L1Pr3Xd
— James Marsters (@earlofbeverley) June 8, 2021
What is an internet, what is its net worth and who is its wife?
— Nick Reilly (@NickJWReilly) June 8, 2021
‘So far so good’ says Dido Harding, on first day as head of global internet security.
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) June 8, 2021
Internet goes out a day before Loki is released. Coincidence? pic.twitter.com/yTUIC30jCm
— Matthew Highton (@MattHighton) June 8, 2021
People think the internet is millions of websites but they’re actually all sitting on the back of like three massive internet caching turtles, one of which has been hit by a virtual bus
— Naveen Razik (@naveenjrazik) June 8, 2021
if I was the internet I would simply not crash
— Fred Delicious (@Fred_Delicious) June 8, 2021
Some websites even had to resort to publishing their news on a Google Doc.
Not only is The Verge currently a Google Doc, but it's a Google Doc that accidently got made editable by the public.
— Laura Kate Dale (@LaurakBuzz) June 8, 2021
So a news story about how the internet is busted is currently an internet playground.
Today is a lot. https://t.co/88mbFaS6GJ
Even Ceefax has a brief resurrection.
Internet: "We're down! We're down! How will society survive??"
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) June 8, 2021
Teletext: "tee hee hee..." pic.twitter.com/UVaH96i59L
Our thoughts with whoever is in charge at Fastly today.
Me on my first day at #Fastly: What does this button do?
— Mark the Blogger (He/him) (@MarktheBlogger1) June 8, 2021
The internet: pic.twitter.com/IYYEbDEC0n
Needless to say, this was quite a few hours on the internet.
