Gmail turned 5 – Happy Birthday Gmail !

Gmail turned 5 years after its launch in April 1 2004. Have you noted the date of launch? Yes, Gmail launched on April Fool’s Day!

Read what they said after this great 5 years in their blogs:

It was five years ago yesterday that Gmail launched by giving out a gig. Back then, a typical webmail account could only store about five megabytes of mail. It’s hard to remember what those days were like, considering that today, you can send a single 20 megabyte attachment, four times the size of an entire webmail account from 2004. A gigabyte of online storage may have been what got a lot of people to give Gmail a try, but changes to the email experience — like search, labels, conversation view, and strong spam protection — seem to be what kept people around.[read more..]

Source: Gmail Blog and Google Blog

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5 Responsesto “Gmail turned 5 – Happy Birthday Gmail !”

1. Hitesh says:

   April 5, 2009 at 7:05 am

   Congratualtion to Gmail on turning 5… but it still is a Beta version hope to see the real Gmail before it turns 10!
2. Anonymous says:

   April 5, 2009 at 10:37 am

   Gongratulations to all google and especially to gmailapplications. I like very much these things:one access code to all applicationsgmail and documents handlingcalendarpicasablogger(other applications I hav´nt tried yet)and everything works without complicationsIlpo
3. Gayan Ariyarathne says:

   April 6, 2009 at 5:29 am

   Happy Birthday Gmail !gayanshani@gmail.com
4. suzan says:

   April 6, 2009 at 8:16 am

   Happy Birthday GMAIL ))))suzanayoub@gmail.com
5. husnukar says:

   April 9, 2009 at 1:24 pm

   Devamını bekleriz…