Gmail turns twenty years outdated –

NEW YORK (EFE).— Yesterday, Google’s e-mail service Gmail celebrated twenty years because it managed to revolutionize the market by providing a free service that had virtually a gigabyte of storage per account in order that customers might “preserve their emails for all the time”.

“Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service with a storage capability of as much as 8 billion bits of data, the equal of 500,000 e-mail pages. Per person,” the corporate then famous in an announcement.

At the moment, Yahoo and Microsoft e-mail customers might solely retailer thirty to sixty emails without spending a dime, and Gmail promised to retailer round 13,000 emails earlier than working out of area.

Now, every Google account contains 15 GB of shared storage between Gmail, Google Drive and Google Images and customers who want extra space should buy it.

Different revolutionary elements of Gmail 20 years in the past had been its message filter and its anti-advertising or spam filtering.

“It turns annoying spam emails into the equal of canned meat,” the 2004 assertion humorously famous.

A joke

The launch of the revolutionary platform developed by Paul Buchheit’s workforce coincided with April Idiot’s Day, which is well known in the USA on April 1st, so many individuals believed it was a joke once they learn the corporate’s announcement.

The mistrust of the announcement additionally got here from the fame of the co-founders of Google, Larry Web page and Sergey Brin, as pranksters, who in earlier years had used that day to promote varied pretend merchandise.

The e-mail service now has roughly 1.2 billion customers worldwide, in accordance with “The Verge,” and e-mail addresses, for many individuals, have change into a key to entry different functions.

Over time, Gmail has added providers, corresponding to chats, video calls and even the potential for having assist from Google’s synthetic intelligence to write down emails.

Regardless of the app’s recognition, Google now competes with different on-line messaging providers corresponding to Slack and WhatsApp.