So the Olympics are in full swing, there is a war in Iraq, one of the most important elections in the history of the Western Hemisphere is about to take place, Russia just invaded it's neighbor, there is a global financial crisis, they just found water on Mars, and my Gmail went down today for a couple hours.
Which of these stories should make the front page?
Yep - you guessed it.
My Gmail went down for a couple of hours today, and it was front page news.
It sounded a little strange and out of place to me, until I really thought about how unbelievably critical sites like Gmail, Facebook, and the Internet as a whole are to our lives. The sheer volume of attachments, pictures, correspondence, and contacts that are in the sky, completely out of our control just boggles my mind sometimes.
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