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Comment by CaptainOfCoit | Hacker News Reader

The internet seems resilient enough for all intents and purposes, we haven't had a global internet-wide catastrophe impacting the entire internet as far as I know, but we have gotten close to it sometimes (thanks BGP).

But the web, that's the fragile, centralized and weak point currently, and seems to be what you're referring to rather.

Maybe nitpicky, but I feel like it's important to distinguish between "the web" and "the internet".

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> The internet seems resilient enough...

The word "seems" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

I don't wanna jinx anything, but yeah, seems. I can't remember a single global internet outage for the 30+ years I've been alive. But again, large services gone down, but the internet infrastructure seems to keep on going regardless.

Sweden and the “Coop” disaster:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57707530

That because people trust and hope blindly. They believe IT is for saving money? It isn’t. They coupled their cash registers onto an American cloud service. The couldn’t even pay in cash.

It usually gets worse, when not outages happens for some time. Because that increases blind trust.

That a Swedish supermarket gets hit by a ransomware attack doesn't prove/disprove the overall stability of the internet, nor the fragility of the web.

You are absolutely correct but this distinction is getting less and less important, everything is using APIs nowadays, including lots of stuff that is utterly invisible until it goes down.

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