ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Internet outage

Hey kiddo! Do you remember when we play hide and seek, and it's hard to find someone if they are hiding? This is similar to what happens when the internet is out - we cannot find the website or information we need.

The internet is like a big invisible network that connects computers and devices all around the world. So, when we want to search for something on the internet, our device connects to this network to find the information or website we want to access.

But sometimes, the system that connects us to the internet might have some problems or stop working altogether, and we refer to that as an "internet outage." It is like when someone hides too well, and we cannot find them for some time.

When an internet outage happens, it impacts many people who are trying to access the internet at that time, just like it would impact many people playing hide-and-seek if we couldn't find each other.

The good news is that internet outages don't usually last long, and things get back to normal after the problem is fixed.