I remember this. They announced it on April 1st, which naturally led everyone to suspect it was an April Fools. The idea that they would offer one gigabyte of storage on a free email service, when competitors offered more like 25 MB, seemed impossible. However, Google had already made their April Fools joke for 2004 about a new operating system being developed for a moon base.
I remember this. They announced it on April 1st, which naturally led everyone to suspect it was an April Fools. The idea that they would offer one gigabyte of storage on a free email service, when competitors offered more like 25 MB, seemed impossible. However, Google had already made their April Fools joke for 2004 about a new operating system being developed for a moon base.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_April_Fools'_Da...>
My favorite was GMail Tap [1]
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvILQlLZsFU
Wow, you've been at this a long time.
How quickly did the competition react?
Edit:Thanks for the April fool's day link. I didn't know about those.