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HardWhich Widely Used Service Was Originally Viewed As A Hoax?
Answer: Gmail
What Gmail offers—lots of storage, a raft of features, and all at the very affordable price of free—is just something we take for granted today. Back in 2004, however, the landscape of web services and free email looked different, and what we expect as routine in the present was outlandish.
In fact, Google, rather tongue-in-cheek, timed the release of Gmail with April Fool’s Day specifically to pull a sort of meta April Fool’s Day prank. At the time of launch, Gmail offered one GB of free storage when other providers were offering a few MBs of free storage. To say the public was skeptical of the announcement would be an enormous understatement. The tech community reacted as if it were a prank, through and through.
The real prank, then, wasn’t convincing everyone that Google was offering an improbably generous free email service, but actually offering it.
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HardThe Film Back To The Future Is Banned In China Because It Features?
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HardWhich Of These Compound Classes Is So Foul That Smelling It Hinders Research Into Them?
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HardThe “10,000 Steps A Day For Better Health” Idea Originated With?
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HardThe First Athlete To Be Disqualified From The Olympics For Doping Used Which Of These Substances?
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HardThe First And Only Human Deaths In Space Were The Crew Of The?
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HardIn Which Country Are Fried Tarantulas Considered A Delicacy?
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HardWhich Spacecraft Was The First To Autonomously Return Extraterrestrial Samples to Earth?
