Post #46

Yesterday, Facebook went down along with almost each and every one of its external and internal services: websites, mobile apps, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and others. Half of the Internet that somehow uses Facebook experienced trouble. Users flocked to other platforms and congested them, too. Among the affected services was Google and a number of other big shots. It’s worth noting that, Telegram welcomed 70 million new users and didn’t even break a sweat. According to the CloudFlare’s investigation released today, the blackout was allegedly caused by an system administrator that misconfigured BGP for the Facebook’s network. Being completely honest, CloudFlare also suffered lengthy downtimes in the past, cutting out the part of the web. It took Facebook long to go back online as the employees themselves lost access to usual services, infrastructure, and means of communication. All of this reminds us that the modern Internet is built upon technologies and protocols that were designed around 30 years ago or earlier. No one considered there would be a global borderless network with billions of users in it at the time. The Internet has been rush in its development, sometimes failing to follow an optimal path. The outages of Facebook, CloudFlare, Akamai, Amazon and others show just how fragile and centralized the Internet has become. And massive personal data leaks show how it’s no longer safe. The Open Network’s mission is to unite the Internet and blockchains. The combination of the best of two worlds — centralized and decentralized, will allow for the creation of a brand new global network; a network that will be safer, stabler, and ready to face any challenge the modern-day world ever presents it with.