Flashback: How a programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:03 am
In 2016, a man in Oakland, California, disrupted web development around the world by deleting 11 lines of code.
The story of how 28-year-old Azer Koçulu briefly broke the internet shows how writing software for the web has become dependent on a patchwork of code that itself relies on the benevolence of fellow programmers. When that system breaks down, as it did then, the consequences can be vast and unpredictable.
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