Ten years ago today on April Fool’s Day 2004, Google launched Gmail, the game-changing email service that was anything but a joke. When Google launched Gmail, it revolutionized the way people use email. It launched with 1GB of free storage and encouraged people to archive e-mails instead of deleting them. This was a major improvement over the 2MB limit on Hotmail, which frequently forced people to decide which emails to delete when they hit their limit. “[Google cofounder Sergey Brin] was most excited about it,” said Brian Rakowski, Gmail’s first product manager, in an interview with Time. “The ultimate April Fools’ joke was to launch something kind of crazy on April 1st and have it still exist on April 2nd.” Over
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