I am rubber and you are glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you. :P

I never EVER could infect those silly mofo's in Madagascar either....... someone would sneeze in say... Canada and BAM it shut down....
http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/fullscreen.php?game=Pandemic-2
Oh............. and some of us got the Portal reference as well

Honestly, I didn't read about why they went down, simply because I didn't cared. If I did, I would have went to the Steam boards to find out what's about. Not GoG, not Kotaku, not somewhere else - it is yet another whiny "I want to bitch about Steam because I don't like it" thread
You're right, there's no big deal. But it's Steam and therefor Wec likes to make every fly cough into a big pile of monkeycrap.

If GoG or Impulse went down for five minutes, I doubt there would have been this much hoo-hah. Hell, if Google went down for five minutes, I doubt many people will complain.
[Edit] It appears the downtime was to implement wishlists to the new Steam store and Steam community. Now everyone can see that I want to buy Toki Tori.