Google's April Fool's Day joke

Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was
Google's April Fool's Day joke

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas
every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than
a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a
Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year, the company said
it planned to roll out a "scratch and sniff" feature on its search
engine.

The jokes were so consistently over-the-top that people learned to
laugh them off as another example of Google mischief. And that's why
Page and Brin decided to unveil something no one would believe was
possible 20 years ago on April Fool's Day.

It was Gmail, a free service boasting 1 gigabyte of storage per
account, an amount that sounds almost pedestrian in an age of
one-terabyte iPhones. But it sounded like a preposterous amount of
email capacity back then, enough to store about 13,500 emails before
running out of space compared to just 30 to 60 emails in the
then-leading webmail services run by Yahoo and Microsoft. That
translated into 250 to 500 times more email storage space.

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