Why can't my Macbook Air startup after formatting hard drive?

Hello fellow apple users,
I recently decided to restore my macbook air to factory settings. I held command + R at startup and from there went to disk utilities and formatted the hard drive. I have done this several times in the past. I restarted my computer before anything else over curiosity (which was a stupid mistake). My computer restarted and nothing happened. Just a blank black screen. The sound from when it turns on was there but nothing else. I tried literally all of the start up commands but none of those worked. I tried internet recovery but it could not connect to the internet and it gave me an error saying 2013f. Does anyone know how i can fix this? I am on a wifi connection with a proxy. Does that have anything to do with it unable to connect?

Because by formatting the hard drive, you erased the operating system... You need to re-install OS X.
You're probably going to have to connect to a different network. The proxy server is probably interfering with your ability to download and re-install.

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