ABC news. "Today's tech outage is possibly the biggest in history, and illustrates how strong of a hold a small part of the internet has on the world's population.

"It's completely unprecedented historically," ABC's national technology reporter Ange Lavoipierre says.

"We've never seen anything on this scale. In fact, never seen anything even close.

"Really, what this does is it highlights the risk of what they call in the industry market consolidation, which is a fancy way of saying — too much of the global economy relying on too few tech companies, just a handful, for critical services.

"It will be a long recovery..."