My favorite part of this announcement is the date. This was so absurd at the time that (allegedly) it was considered an April Fools' joke [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/04/01/when-google-first-announced-gmail-it-was-brushed-off-an-april-fools-day-joke/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/04/01/when-googl...</a>