If you couldn’t load ChatGPT, scroll through X or even check Downdetector to see why everything was broken on the internet, you weren’t alone.

A massive outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare that started on Tuesday triggered a wave of “500 Internal Server Errors” across the globe, knocking substantial portions of the web offline and once again exposing the fragility of the modern internet.

Early on Wednesday morning (AEDT) Cloudflare said its engineers no longer saw some of the issues plaguing its customers, but that they were continuing to monitor for any further problems.

Platforms that experienced outages included the social media site X, Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase, and the Moody’s credit ratings service. Moody’s website displayed an Error Code 500 and instructed individ

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