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Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google’s April Fools’ Day joke
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks‚ so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools’ Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year‚ Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year‚ the company said it planned to roll out a “scratch and sniff” feature on its search engine.
The jokes were so consistently over-the-top that people learned to laugh them...