It’s been 20 years since Google launched Gmail. On April 1st, 2004, Google announced a free email service boasting 1 gigabyte of storage per account. At the time, that was a huge amount of email capacity and many people thought Gmail was the latest prank from Google’s co-founders. But the April Fool’s Day announcement was […]
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First thought to be a prank, Gmail turns 20
It’s been 20 years since Google launched Gmail. On April 1st, 2004, Google announced a free email service boasting 1 gigabyte of storage per account. At the time, that was a huge amount of email capacity and many people thought Gmail was the latest prank from Google’s co-founders. But the April Fool’s Day announcement was no joke. Gmail revolutionized email and today there are an estimated 1.8 billion active accounts.