TIL that when Gmail was introduced with an unbelievable 1GB free storage in 2004, Hotmail only offered 2MB. Google announced Gmail on April 1st, and wrote a punny and unprofessional press release, tricking many into thinking it was an April's fool joke

http://techland.time.com/2013/04/01/google-april-fools/



Submitted April 01, 2015 at 02:05AM by Thue http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/30yvfz/til_that_when_gmail_was_introduced_with_an/