The domain Facebook.com was listed for sale on Oct. 4, 2021.
One imagines that the $967 billion company was really not selling its name, but several domain registration companies listed it for sale. After all, no one was home at Facebook.
The company's websites abruptly went offline on that date, along with Instagram and WhatsApp. You might have noticed this.
Early in October, it was too soon to tell what happened.
However, there were clues.
At 11:39 a.m., someone at Facebook tripped over a wire. Not literally, but figuratively. Someone cause an update to the company's Web records that route internet traffic. Suddenl,y every computer in the world had never heard of Facebook.
Inside Facebook, they couldn't even talk to each other.
Is someone really in the doghouse?
Or was it malice?
The outage came right after a whistleblower characterized Facebook as dangerous to users.
