A number of leading websites were hit by technical difficulties on Tuesday morning.
The online sites for British national newspapers The Guardian and the Independent were down, alongside the Financial Times, New York Times, CNN, Le Monde, Atlantic, New Statesman.
American social news website Reddit was also down, as well as music streaming platform Spotify.
When users visited websites such as The Independent, they were met with an "Error 503 service unavailable" message.
The outage was believed to have been sparked by an issue with a content delivery network (CDN), a system used to host websites and their content on the internet and serve it to users.
Alex Hern, the UK Technology Editor at the Guardian tweeted the following:
Beginning with where we are now: A massive internet outage, affecting websites including The Guardian, http://Gov.uk, Amazon, and Reddit has been traced to a failure in a content delivery network (CDN) run by Fastly.
The outage, which began shortly before 11am UK time, saw visitors to a vast array of sites receive error messages including "Error 503 Service Unavailable" and a terse connection failure".
His full thread can be seen below
As well as bringing down some websites entirely, the failure also broke specific sections of other services, such as the servers for Twitter that host the social network's emoji.
— alex hern (@alexhern) June 8, 2021
More Twitter users took to the platform to post about the worldwide incident.
One said: "So is this the day we finally broke the internet? #internetdown"
Another took a more humorous look...
Half the internet right now 😂 #internetdown pic.twitter.com/1QiUlsDiFW
— Ross Kelly (@rossmkelly92) June 8, 2021
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