Gmail - 18 Years Later

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 Gmail - 18 Years Later


Everyday, millions of people use Gmail to receive, send and check their emails. It has become an essential and life-changing way to communicate between workers and individuals. The sheer impact that Gmail has had is limitless and unimaginable a mere 50 years ago. So here’s how it started…

Google launched Gmail in 1 April 2004. And it was originally a daring project. With a full 1GB of ram that was included into Gmail at the start, it was a revolutionary software. But when launched in 2004, Google made the slightly stupid decision to launch Gmail on the first of April. Therefore, everywhere around the world, news articles and people wrote how Gmail was such a brilliant April Fools Prank, a prank that took the world by storm. It was a product launch gone wrong. 

Developments to Gmail had been in progress for over a year at that point. Finally, after thorough testing, Gmail was launched and it was a daring idea. It offered 1GB of storage, revolutionary at the time, and way ahead of the other email software systems like Yahoo Mail. But through the first week of Gmail’s launch, people were undoubtedly confused. That’s because Google made the pathetic mistake of launching a revolutionary email system on April Fools Day.

When Gmail launched, most people brushed it off as just a simple joke Google had made up. It was a product launch gone terribly wrong. People took it as one of the other April Fools Jokes they had made that same day. Overtime, people did realise that this is a real thing rather than a joke. Today, Gmail is responsible for sending over 2 billion emails per day. And the number is growing faster than ever before. So here's to the world's largest email messaging system and its launch campaign gone terribly wrong...

Happy April Fools Day!

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