It wasn't just your Wi-Fi. For four hours last night, the world's biggest video engine stuttered and died, leaving 2 billion users staring at 80s pixel art. But inside Mountain View, the panic was about something much darker than a broken server.
At 8:42 AM EST, the world’s digital town square went dark. But while you were frantically refreshing your feed, my phone was lighting up with encrypted messages from inside the beast. Here is the story they didn't tweet.
