Doomsday Equals No Gmail?
Sep 2nd, 2009 by admin
I had to laugh yesterday when Google’s infamous Gmail went down for a few hours – literally it was just a blip in time, but you’d have thought the world was coming to an end. Immediately, I sent a Skype to the person who convinced me to sign up with Gmail. He said his was down, too. So I knew it wasn’t just me. I then received Skypes from several individuals asking me if my Gmail was down. I, too, filled them in that it wasn’t just them. They were not being singled out by the gremlins that infiltrate our computers through some secret portal in the Internet. So I logged onto Facebook to seek refuge. Nada. It was status update, after comment, after post of “Is Gmail down?” or “Gmail isn’t working???” No. Gmail is not in functioning mode. Please hang up and try your log on again later.
In the course of a half hour, conversations were erupting all over the netisphere. People were panicking, asking, “Is your Gmail working?” Mashable, Techcrunch and just about every other tech blogging outlet known to mankind were letting their loyal readerships know about the catastrophe that was the BIG G REALLY BEING DOWN. It was not a figment of our imagination. It was not our individual computers ceasing to live… Gmail was not functioning, we were receiving the most hideous 502 Error Page ever and people were in a frenzy. In the online world, this event was the equivalent to Michael Jackson passing away or the apocalypse coming to town. I have never seen such a scurry of activity, such an outpouring of frustration and concern for what was the periodic demise of all things Google.
So I ask you… Are we a world just a tad too dependent on the Big G?
That’s all for now. I need to go check my email.
Can’t imagine life without GMAIL. Thank God for Skype. How else would we find out about GMAIL being down?