Its launch was considered ‘a joke’ because of the day chosen. On April 1, 2004, the world saw a new digital messaging service that would be groundbreaking.

The Google company announced the integration of Gmail, which allowed to group messages into conversation threads and store 1 gigabyte of data for free, which was almost 100 times more than what was available at that time.

Five years after that date, it was already considered a finished product because it was in the beta phase.

The person behind this project was Paul Buchheit, who was tasked with developing an email client, he recalled in an interview in Time magazine.

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Its development began in August 2001 and there was already a predecessor, a personal project, which he left in 1999 when he joined Google. The reason he quit was because he was bored with his idea.

Faced with the new challenge he had to rethink what he wanted the product to be and progress was made by integrating the search engine into the email, which was innovative at the time.

Gmail was launched on April 1, 2004.

The team he created, which was established as the company became more enthusiastic, consisted of twelve people.

The Xataka portal highlights Kevin Fox as part of it and who was responsible for giving the email the look and feel.

The platform also faced one of the issues related to spam at the time. The company blocked these emails before the user received them, making them the most secure.

On the first anniversary, the capacity increased to two gigabytes and is currently 15 gigabytes.

Starting December 1, the company decided to delete inactive photo and Gmail accounts. The measure is intended to protect the integrity and security of the accounts and to avoid the risks associated with abandoning them.

According to Google officials, inactive accounts may be more susceptible to security issues, especially if they rely on old or reused passwords. (JO)