Google is still going strong and adding features to the platform to support the initial mission that spawned this behemoth.
Twenty years ago today, Google launched a new product that was initially thought to be an April Fools’ Day prank. However, that was quite the opposite, creating Gmail, which would eventually come to have over a billion users with an unfathomable quantity of emails in their accounts. While the history of how Gmail came to be, Google is still going strong and adding features to the platform to support the initial mission that spawned this behemoth.
On April 1st, 2004, Google announced that it was testing a preview release of Gmail, “a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email.
