A momentary outage of Google on Friday sent users scurrying to Twitter and other social media networks to speculate about the cause, CNET reports.

Numerous services directly connected to the internet giant, including its namesake search engine, went down for a few minutes on Friday afternoon, an occurrence that, according to CNET, essentially encouraged professionals around the world to start their weekends early. All told, the outage only lasted for between one and five minutes (between 23:52 and 23:57 BST, or 3:52 and 3:57 PST), but still offered a glimpse of what life would be like if Google suddenly ceased to exist.

According to GoSquared, an internet analytics company, the brief Google lapse caused a dramatic 40 percent drop in global internet traffic, a tremendous figure that suggests the Google outage caused internet workers everywhere to throw up their hands, turn off their computers, and get up to either take a walk or hit the road.

Of course, the internet drop didn’t extend to social media outlets like Twitter, where users immediately started speculating about the death of the internet, the end of the world, and the possible usefulness of “other” search engines like Bing and Yahoo.

But while the Google outage got a lot of press considering its five-minute window, the company wasn’t the only dominant internet corporation experiencing technical difficulties this weekend. Microsoft’s Outlook.com also plunged into darkness, and according to Yahoo News, still might not be quite back to normal.

Outlook, which includes an email service, a calendar app, and a cloud drive, was down for more than three days. Microsoft delivered an apology letter and claimed the service was up and running once more on Sunday, but some users have continued to struggle with outages through Monday.

The Outlook outage is bad news for Microsoft, especially considering its tight integration with the Windows Phone and Windows 8 operating systems. The Outlook service is also connected to Office 365, a business-based cloud storage service that allows users to access their Word, Powerpoint, and Excel documents from anywhere. The weekend down time for Outlook essentially torpedoed the usefulness of that service and of current Windows operating systems, something that could cause trouble for Microsoft if their customers start jumping ship. Outlook suffered a similar outage in March.

The coincidental nature of the dual outages shows just how reliant most modern people are on the internet and on services like email, cloud storage, and online calendars.