YouTube, Outage Hits
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The video service has gone dark in the U.S. on Tuesday night.
The V&A museum has reconstructed an early YouTube watch page, showing the 19-second clip “Me at the zoo” from 2005.
The original YouTube experience from 2005 has been recreated using internet archives.
For an hour, users were met with the message, "Something went wrong. Try again."
The outage caused a flood of users to report access problems for YouTube. The video-sharing platform has since traced the issue to its recommendations system.
YouTube was not fully back online until after 10 p.m. Here's what YouTube said about the problems. "Aaaand we're back!! This issue has been fixed across YouTube. Thanks for all the reports and for bearing with us while we sorted it out,
Tens of thousands of users reported trouble accessing YouTube on Tuesday night, but the issue has since been fixed, the company said.