Gmail is 14 years of age

Focus, on the grounds that there are such a large number of awful things on the web today. Be that as it may, there is a decent and helpful thing: it's Gmail, and today your most loved email benefit is commending its tenth birthday celebration.

As indicated by Wikipedia, Gmail was propelled on April 1, 2004. Around then, it was a beta item just for visitors. Curiously, Google declared Google Moon Base (April Prank April Fools) that day, and at first, nobody was certain it was valid. Clearly, we as a whole made sense of it, and on February 7, 2007, Google opened Gmail to people in general.

Despite the fact that it is still in the testing stage, it has been extremely well known because of the substantial measure of capacity offered for non-dollars. At in the first place, it gave you an entire gigabyte of memory, which is by all accounts a metric poop house contrasted with 2MB to 4MB you can get from Hotmail. The interface is additionally easy to use - it's accessible, everything is shown in the discussion see, like the chatroom that was as yet prevalent at the time, and connections could be dependent upon 25MB. .

This is the thing that it resembled 10 years prior, through GoogleSystems Blog:

It doesn't exactly coordinate the Gmail we utilize today, despite the fact that things like tabs and gchat did not come until some other time. You can see a picture delineating the development of Gmail here. By 2012, Gmail has turned into the most prevalent email benefit (more than 425 million clients and tallying) on the web.

Along these lines, as you witness the ocean of shame today, remember that Gmail isn't only one of Google's greatest hits - it's additionally a decent April Fool's Day that has been pulled. [h/t @therealfitz]