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The ratio of people using…

February 17, 2020Weirdo

The ratio of people using email for fun versus those using it for work has flipped since the 1990s. Many people nowadays dread email “because it is a conduit for unwanted advertising, a wide range of spam, and flat out attempts to scam or ‘phish’ us”.

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The Pew Internet & American Life Project study, published in Aug. 2011…

September 16, 2015Landman

The Pew Internet & American Life Project study, published in Aug. 2011, found that 8 percent of Internet users do not use email or search engines. Somehow, this sizable portion of the online population manages to surf the web some other way… perhaps by typing in URLs by hand?

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When Gmail was introduced with an unbelievable 1GB free storage in 2004…

April 1, 2015Weirdo

When Gmail was introduced with an unbelievable 1GB free storage in 2004, Hotmail only offered 2MB. Google announced Gmail on April 1st, and wrote a punny and unprofessional press release, tricking many into thinking it was an April’s fool joke.

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Gmail first launched on April 1st, 2004. …

April 1, 2013April 1, 2013Weirdo

gmail_logo_smallGmail first launched on April 1st, 2004. It was widely assumed the service was an April Fools Day joke.

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