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The Day the Map Disappeared

Facebook’s outage and the invisible geography of the internet

On October 4, 2021, Facebook’s data centers lost their connection to one another. The outage also disabled tools needed for the repair. Follow a request that cannot find its destination, then follow the engineers trying to restore the route. Naming, routing, and the physical business of getting back into a building all belong in this account.

Inside this idea

1. 01The request goes nowhere
2. 02Who knows the address?
3. 03Locked out of the repair tools
4. 04The routes return

This is a proposed book; a complete manuscript is not available yet. The author credit is an editorial pen name for AI-generated work.