Gmail Suffers Major Outage

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An overloaded Google router caused a shutdown of Gmail on Tuesday, affecting 150 million users for nearly two hours. What do you think?


"So by the end of next May, we should start seeing the first of the Google Outage babies being born."

Carla Levy • Systems Analyst

"Now I don't look so silly for never signing up for an e-mail address, do I?"

Eric Newman • Pile-Driver Operator

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"Remember the time when 150 million people couldn't use Gmail for nearly ten years? From 1993–2003? And every year before that? Unimaginable."

Adam Carmody • Safe Installer