Why Did Multiple Popular Websites Around The World Crash This Week
8 June - 5 minsToday there was an outage on the internet.
Several of the worlds largest news sites and government homepages were inaccessible.
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Andy O’Donoghue technology correspondent and Tech Tuesday contributor spoke to The Last Word about the websites crashing.
Catch the full chat by pressing the Play button on this page.
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