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by bombcar 1181 days ago
Wasnt gmail announced on Apr 1st?
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CrazyStat 1181 days ago
Yes, and the 1 gigabyte of free storage was plausibly a prank at the time--hotmail at the time provided 2MB, for comparison.
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bombcar 1181 days ago
Amazing to think many emails don’t fit in 2mb anymore.
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dochtman 1181 days ago
They were trying to get out in front of the NYT breaking the news of GMail, see The Social Radars podcast episode with Paul Buchheit (https://www.thesocialradars.com/episodes, great episode).
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