That's precisely the point. GMail gave Google user accounts, which made the cost largely immaterial. The 24/7 global corporate surveillance network has it's ro

That's precisely the point. GMail gave Google user accounts, which made the cost largely immaterial. The 24/7 global corporate surveillance network has it's roots in Sun and its "The Network is the Computer", as early as 1984. Hard to believe Google just stumbled into a trillion dollar business model two decades later.