Facebook broke the internet

What is more upsetting? Facebook really broke the internet when it put a LOGIN WALL in front of content.<p>Why should I have to login to facebook to view that page?<p>Facebook broke the internet for completely different reasons.

So I'm getting the picture that Facebook didn't break the internet. Facebook broke a bunch of websites that made the intentional design decision to depend on Facebook for their own availability.<p>Is this right?

Another reason why Connect shouldn't be your only sign-in option. :)

I'm still awaiting the day when the Google CDN version of JQuery goes down.

Is there a way to see this content without a facebook account?

Kinda crazy how many sites rely on the Facebook JS SDK for login and other stuff. Definitely still ways to access the API, but if you don't have good fallbacks, you're screwed.

FYI the incident appears to have lasted from approx 6:55pm PST to 8:22pm PST for a total of 87 minutes.

What did Facebook break? My internet seems to have been functioning and still functions perfectly.

Gee, I didn't notice...

Really? I've been online all day, and I didn't notice.

this is the second story on the front page right now claiming something "broke the internet". can we stop this sensationalist tripe before it goes any further?