G-Mail was originally a free email service for fans of the cat Garfield



domain name «gmail.com» has long been closely associated with the users of the Internet company Google, but initially it did not belong to Google. At this address housed email service called G-Mail, which used the site for correspondence Garfield.com fans of comic books about a cat Garfield. In 2005, Google bought the domain name, and in 2007 it launched on its own mail service Gmail.

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