Harry McCracken writing for TIME:
“If you wanted to pick a single date to mark the beginning of the modern era of the web, you could do a lot worse than choosing Thursday, April 1, 2004, the day Gmail launched.”It was not an April Fool’s joke.
Here’s Google’s original news release.
Gmail’s "creator", Paul Buchheit, is not quoted.
His color in the TIME article is classic Silicon Valley.
Balancing innovation, creating a team, addressing privacy, advertising, incorporating search, launching.
A tech “how-to.”
Gmail is now a decade old.
Out of Beta.
But a work in progress.
Still addressing privacy.
Did you get one of the original Gmail invites?
Do you still use it?
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