On April 1, 2004, Google introduced Gmail. It was a free email service that offered 1GB of storage, which was unthinkable in its time.
Partly because of this, people initially assumed that Gmail was just another Google April Fool’s joke (the company used to regularly hold pranks on these days). 1 GB of storage funds 13.5 thousand rubles. Currently, Yahoo and Microsoft allow you to store 30-60 emails. So Gmail had 250-500 times more space.
Gmail took three years to develop, and at the time the servers opened, there was only enough money for $10,000. users. It currently has about 1.8 billion active users, each of whom has access to 15 GB of free storage.
Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google’s April Fool’s joke
When Gmail was introduced 20 years ago, people thought it was Google’s April Fool’s joke.
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Source: Iphones RU
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