It may have only lasted 100 minutes, but the Great Gmail Outage of last week generated discussion that endured for days. It started with panic attacks on Twitter and took some bizarre turns, such as sparking talk of lawsuits. But in the end, the fact of the outage wasn’t nearly as interesting as what it said about Google, about email and about us. Here are five lessons that Gfail had to offer:
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