TIL in 2016, a man deleted his open-source Javascript package, which consisted of only 11 lines of code. Because this packaged turned out to be a dependency on major software projects, the deletion caused service disruptions across the internet.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/03/how-11-lines-of-code-broke-tons-sites.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1h2uj2i/til_in_2016_a_man_deleted_his_opensource/