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When Google launched Gmail 20 years ago today, many people thought the whole thing was an April Fools' Day prank. Google advertised a whole gigabyte of email storage. That was a huge amount of space back then. The Associated Press reminds us that skeptics had their reasons. Google had previously proposed outlandish fake ideas on April 1, including a scratch-and-sniff feature on its search engine. Today, the email platform is no joke. It has well over a billion users.
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