Users consider going outside for the first time in years

Facebook is having difficulty restoring its services entirely after a 17 hour partial outage made the world’s largest social network inaccessible to users across the globe.

Over 2.5 hours, mostly concentrated in Europe

On Tuesday, visitors to the website were greeted with the "Something is technically wrong" including the infamous blindfolded android robot image. Twitter chose to communicate the problem via a tweet. Some users took to Facebook to complain. Yet for others, the site appears to be permanently inaccessible.

Skype's been down for hours. Millions lost.

Microsoft's communication platform "to rule them all" has been down for hours, on Monday, September 21st. The product blog is mum, with a couple of twitter posts from the company not explaining anything.

Data center UPS to blame for interruption