In 2004, Google's press release revealed that the company was not satisfied with dominating the Internet search - the two most popular online activities. Google wants to handle the largest online services on the Internet: e-mail. For that, Google announced it would allow a number of people choose to test the Web-hosted email service calledGmail [source: Google].
Gmail started as a Google e-mail internally. When Google decided to make Gmail available to people outside the company, he chose to adopt an incremental approach. Initially, the only way to get a Gmail account is to receive an invitation from someone else. Nearly three years after the announcement of Gmail, Google free access to the entire community. Now anyone can create a Gmail account.
Gmail organize your messages into "conversations." If someone sends you a message and you reply, Gmail will display the two messages together in a pile. E-mail to the origin of the above and your answer will appear below. Future messages will appear in the original, which collapsed Gmail, so they do not take too much space on your screen. By classifying all messages and replies, Gmail allows users to keep track of multiple threads at once.
Some people think that communicating via e-mail is dying (or dead).
