![]() ![]() He has written thousands of articles, hundreds of tutorials, and dozens of reviews.īefore joining How-To Geek, Joe worked at XDA-Developers as Managing Editor and covered news from the Google ecosystem. Joe loves all things technology and is also an avid DIYer at heart. He has been covering Android and the rest of the Google ecosystem for years, reviewing devices, hosting podcasts, filming videos, and writing tutorials. Joe Fedewa has been writing about technology for over a decade. Google made it clear that Gmail was in beta, even sticking "Beta" on the logo. Gmail was finally announced to the public on April 1st, 2004. However, by early 2004 most people within the company were using it. Gmail was kept secret even from people within Google for a while. Every action required the server to reload the page, which was slow. Buchheit worked around that by using JavaScript. The goal was to create a web email service that wasn't written in plain HTML-like Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail were both extremely popular. Paul Buchheit was a developer at Google working on something called " Google Groups." He was asked to build an email product.īuchheit's first version of Gmail was created in one day based on the code from Google Groups. Web-based email clients were not a new idea at this time. ![]() Related: How the Internet Killed April Fools' Day (and Why It Needs to Stop) Not a Joke This is why Google announced Gmail on April 1st, 2004. The internet gets saturated with fake announcements and phony products. Nowadays, sharing serious news on April 1st is a good way to make people ignore it. ![]()
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