BY JAMEY TUCKER, Consumer Technology Reporter

If you woke up this morning and it felt like the internet was broken, you weren’t imagining it.

Cloudflare, one of the major players in internet infrastructure, suffered a massive outage early today, leaving millions of websites, including giants like ChatGPT, X, and PayPal, temporarily inaccessible.

So, what exactly happened, and why does one company have such a huge impact on the World Wide Web?

The Hidden Engines of the Internet.

Most of us view the internet as a collection of websites and apps. But behind the scenes, a handful of companies are the backbone, keeping the whole system running. When one of these companies experiences trouble, the disruption is felt by everyone.

Cloudflare is one of the biggest and most critical of these e

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