Gmail Launched
Gmail Launched April 1, 2004. The earliest email I have saved is 2/4/2005, and that is by far not the first email I used on Gmail, but the oldest one I saved, it was sharing some Counter Strike files that I had deleted before. I believe it was mid-to-late 2004 that I was first invited to use Gmail. I have tried to find out the exact date I started, and it is very difficult to find the exact date that ranges back that far. After a lot of forum threads, there are some people out there have saved every email every sent and suggested that I can look back to the first email to find out the exact date of creation. That wouldn’t work for me, I have used my Gmail exclusively for over 15 years; there is no way I could have saved every piece. 15GB is not even close to how large my mailbox would have to be for that type of use. I have sent Google a message requesting that information, but I’m not holding my breath on them getting back to me anytime soon. I do remember that Gmail was in the infant stages of development.
It’s 16 years and counting, and I still use Gmail and Calendar for all my main communications and will use Voice and Hangouts until they remove those services. I have provided a service to Google via Local Guides with taking pictures of locations and providing details for others to use on Google Maps. I have over 1.6M views and many of those images are the default image for the location, even with hundreds of others uploaded. It’s been a personal goal of mine to give something back for all the years I have used their services for free, and until Google Maps stop using images, they should provide information to anyone who uses them. I still have multiple accounts and until I find a better service, they are still my main account, but I have been looking.
