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it has the potential to be the "largest IT outage in history".

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.