Take attentiveness , because there ’s a lot of tough stuff out there on the cyberspace today . But there ’s one thing that ’s very good and utilitarian : it ’s Gmail , and today your favorite e-mail service is celebrate its tenth birthday .
fit in to Wikipedia , Gmail was launched on April 1 , 2004 . At the time , it was an invitation - only genus Beta product . Funny thing is , Googleannounced Google Moon Base(its actual April Fool ’s prank ) the same twenty-four hours , and at first , no one was certain which was real . plain , we all figured it out , and on February 7 , 2007 , Google open up Gmail up to the oecumenical public .
Although it was still in beta , it was already hugely popular thanks to the monumental amount of repositing it offered for zero dollars . At the commencement , it gave you a whole GB of storage , which seemed like a metric crapton compared to the 2 Mbit to 4 MB you could get from Hotmail . The interface was also more well-disposed to users — it was searchable , thing were laid out in a conversation view , similar to chatrooms that were still democratic at the time , and attachments could be up to 25 MB large .
Here ’s what it looked like a X ago , viaGoogleSystems Blog :
It ’s astonishingly consistent to the Gmail we used today , though thing like lozenge and Gchat did n’t come until later . you’re able to see a pictorial depictingGmail ’s phylogenesis here . By 2012 , Gmail had become the most popular email service ( more than 425 million users and counting ) on the web .
So as you wade through a sea of spoiled pranks today , remember that Gmail is n’t just one of Google ’s enceinte hits — it ’s also the good April Fool ’s solar day jest it ’s ever take out . [ h / t@therealfitz ]
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