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Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools' Day not long after starting their company.

Gmail started on April 1, 2004, as a free service boasting 1 gigabyte of storage per account. This may sound like nothing now, but in that time, it was considered a massive amount of email capacity. ETtech looks at its two-decade-long journey.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year, […]

Google decided to unveil something no one would believe was possible 20 years ago on April Fools' Day. It was Gmail.

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools Day not long after starting their company more than

When Google co-founders unveiled Gmail on April Fools' Day in 2004, it sounded preposterous.

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools Day not long after starting their company more than

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year, the company said it planned to roll out a “scratch and sniff” feature on its search engine.

Google decided to unveil something no one would believe was possible 20 years ago on April Fools' Day. It was Gmail.