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Ben Eater: Why FB Was Down

Source: https://youtu.be/-wMU8vmfaYo

Facebook was down. Twice. And you might be thinking something along the lines of … 'I could not care less'. Well, good point.

But what makes it interesting, is the story behind it. How did it happen, that one of the biggest social networks went down completely and for so long? And what does this mean for us?

To our surprise Ben Eater picked up this topic and just released an interesting video to give you all the facts.

To be honest, if it was not Ben, we would not have included this one. But his tour through the DNS protocol and how it works is super interesting. And Ben is so much 8-bit, so …

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