I haven't been able to play on MC servers for 2 months now, in 2018.

It's not really the Launcher, but every time I try to log in on 1.8.9 or lower, to play on a server, it always reads the message, "Error, The authentication Servers are down for maintenance". But it's only my computer because I watched my favorite YouTuber stream on a MC server. I don't know why and i'm sad because I haven't been able to play on a server for all of January 2018, and February 2018.