Gmail Outage: Share Your Memories

For an hour or two today, Gmail was down. The entire world basically screeched to a halt. The economy crashed. A monkey in a coat wandered around an Ikea, in Toronto. And in offices everywhere, people were forced to talk to each other. Why did we ever think it was a good idea to trust our entire life to an Internet text-ad company that thought “Google+” was a good idea?

What did you do during the Great Mayan Apocalypse of December 10, 2012? Was it “fun,” or did you keep trying to reload Gmail every thirty seconds, like a drug-addicted laboratory animal? Share your story of what it was like, a half hour ago, when the Earth stood still.