Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google’s April Fools Day joke
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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 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, the company said it planned to roll out a “scratch and sniff” feature on its search engine.The jokes were so consistently over-the-top that people learned to laugh them off as another example of Google mischief. And that's why Page and Brin decided to unveil something no one would believe was possible 20 years ago on April Fool's Day. Also read: Ixigo launches ‘Flyfie' drone selfie stick for travellers but you can't buy it It was Gmail, a free service boasting 1 gigabyte of stor...