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A few days ago GMail simply crashed. The website was down for a few hours and all across the internet it seemed as though people (particularly those attached to their Gmail accounts) were going to jump off the deep end.

Of course, Google does pride itself on its services that it offers, but you can’t expect for anything on the internet to be up 100% of the time. While it was a giant inconvenience for the site to be down during business hours on a weekday, sometimes this kind of stuff happens.

However, sometimes it is not always the fault of the website that you are trying to visit that is having the problems. While Google hasn’t come out and said exactly what happened on Tuesday to lead to the huge failure of its Gmail system, there is a quite a bit of speculation going around the internet. Of course there is a lot of speculation floating around, what else were people going to do while they couldn’t access their email accounts?

Sometimes, and it seems most frequently with large sites like Twitter, the cause of outages is a group of malicious programmers trying to shut the site down for their own enjoyment. Twitter experienced an outage last month and it was all due to a group of Russian programmers that wanted to shut down an account of a rival that lives in the neighboring country of Georgia. It seems like a lot of trouble to go through just to get your point across.

I only decided to touch on the Gmail fail because every news outlet I have been reading has been talking about it and going back to the “The internet is not safe and venerable” statement to remind everyone how “bad” the internet is. Well, this is not something new that people just discovered when Gmail crashed.

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