Just what was it that took Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp offline on 4th October 2021? – Dr Steve Bagley investigates!
previously titled “Facebook’s Day Off”
Facebook announcement on the outage: https://bit.ly/C_FB-Outage
The visualisation software Steve was using was BGP play, downloaded from the RIPE website.
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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer
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