Everyone Get Back To Work: Google Calendar Is Back, Or Will Be Soon

As a reminder of how much everyone has come to depend on a free (or work-supplied, if your workplace uses Google accounts) online service, today civilization may yet still collapse due to a morning outage of Google Calendar. There were no widespread reports of people wandering streets or office hallways with no idea of where they were supposed to be, but that may be because the outage only lasted a few hours.

As usual when a service other than Twitter is down, people took to Twitter to vent about the situation. Or celebrate. One of those things.

Wait, @googlecalendar is down? This is like a snow day for adults, right?

— Peter Seibel (@peterseibel) June 30, 2016

Do you think the 8 meetings I have between now and 6pm are canceled bc google calendar is down

— Shani O. Hilton (@shani_o) June 30, 2016

@googlecalendar can you please erase the last week, thanks. UK.

— HP (@hp88) June 30, 2016

….

is google calendar down right now?

— Sam Sheffer (@samsheffer) June 30, 2016

google calendar is down and i hope they do a post mortem and explain what happened and then i realized THEY CAN'T EVEN SCHEDULE THE MEETING

— Paul Ford (@ftrain) June 30, 2016

Google calendar being down is like the earth splitting open before my eyes

— Brittany Luse (@bmluse) June 30, 2016

Google, however, ruined the Internet’s fun by being competent and fixing the problem.

Calendar experienced an outage earlier. Service is back for many of you & we expect full resolution soon. Updates: https://t.co/42yjpO2Tyv

— Google Calendar (@googlecalendar) June 30, 2016

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by Laura Northrup via Consumerist