Gmail is one of those “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone” services; an almost invisible technology, if you will. That is, however, until it goes down. When that happens, the ubiquitous service is hard to ignore as people scramble around, wondering why they can’t access their Gmail accounts. Such was the case earlier today (5/29) when Gmail experienced an outage which affected 0.11 percent of their user base.

As pointed out by Mashable, Google boasts that Gmail has 350 million subscribers, meaning close to 400,000 people had to deal with the Gmail outage. A quick look at the Google Apps Status Dashboard reveals Google was indeed working to fix Gmail, which began at 9:20am. By 11:50, the service had been fully restored, although, Google never officially revealed the issue it was trying to correct.

Here’s a screenshot of Google’s actions concerning Gmail:

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Some, however, took the opportunity to air some grievances they have with Gmail:

Or to actually compliment Google for not forcing G+ down someone’s throat:

Did any readers experience any Gmail issues earlier today? If so, are you back up and running, just like Google says you should be?