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Hey, remember that one time when this feature was Gmail's April Fools Day joke[1]? Kind of funny how it's now a serious and actually useful-looking product. [1
by rcthompson 11y ago
Hey, remember that one time when this feature was Gmail's April Fools Day joke[1]? Kind of funny how it's now a serious and actually useful-looking product.
[1] https://www.gmail.com/mail/help/autopilot/ https://www.gmail.com/mail/help/autopilot/
- shostack 11y agoWasn't the "Unsend" feature an April Fools joke as well? Man...I hit that Undo button at least several times/day.
- vram22 11y agoAnother Google April Fools Day joke, some years ago, was Google Paper, or some such name. IIRC it was funny.
- rcthompson 11y agoWell, they kind of made that one for real too, didn't they? http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/index.html http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/index.html
- kuschku 11y agoGreat Scott, that site looks like it’s from 1985! https://www.google.com/cloudprint/gadget.html?user=0 https://www.google.com/cloudprint/gadget.html?user=0
- mikeash 11y agoGmail itself was a sort of a serious April Fools joke. It was launched on April 1st, 2004 and because it offered 1GB of free storage when other providers were offering ~5MB, a lot of people assumed it was a hoax.