As you may have already heard, over 100 million Gmail users were unable to access their accounts for four hours early this morning. Luckily, most Americans slept right through the Great Gmail Blackout of 2009, but the hysterical responses to it still survive in the archives of Twitter.

Throughout the first few hours of the crisis the social networking site became an endless parade of tweets along the lines of "Oh no, Gmail down!!!"

After the jump, a few of our favorite overreactions to the technical glitch.

From newspopl: BREAKING - Gmail is Down - End of the Internet

From Micahvellian: Economy down the drain, Gmail is down, the end is near.
From SuringsFinest: gmail is down. what will all the world's geeks do?
From D_Wittenbrink: Ist gmail immer noch down

From Benpant1: Cannot believe Gmail went down for two hours this morning. Just when I needed to send my history essay. Damn you, cloud computing.

From isdown: Oh god, Gmail is down! Quick everyone, to the bomb shelters!
From roguemovement: Just logged in and Twitter was down. Thought I was going to have to Gmail about it ...