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[ESC]Is it just me or is July cursed for I.T.
July 19th 2026: Meta and Facebook experienced a global outage
July 24th 2025: Starlink experienced a global network outage
July 19th 2024: CrowdStrike experienced a global outage
July 27th 2023: slack systemwide outage affecting students globally
July 19th 2022: Google Cloud Cooling Failure resulting in global outage
July 22nd 2021: Akamai experienced a global outage for an hour
July 17th 2020: Cloudflare Outage takes down around 10% of online sites a 2nd time
July 2nd 2019: Cloudflare Outage takes down around 10% of online sites
I began studying tech as a hobby in July 2018, and ever since then, every consecutive year I have heard of a massive global outage. I almost guarantee you its confirmation bias at this point but has anyone else noticed this?
Each of these outages literally landed on my porch via my local newspaper or in the case of the first two and last two minus the 2026 incident, I had to study them as case studies during my education as they happened.
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