When’s the last time you remember your Gmail being down for longer than one or two seconds? And who’s to say that glitch wasn’t just your router acting up? Today, Google experienced a Gmail outage that was remarkably widespread and lengthy for its standards. It was so “severe,” in fact, that the company actually made the outage public and pleaded for patience as it worked to put things back together. Starting at around 9:30AM GMT today (or really, really early on the East Coast of America), Google’s monitoring