This is just so darn interesting.
Slashdot | Google’s Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage?
Re:It’s no lie…. (Score:5, Informative)
by mac-diddy (569281) on Wednesday March 31, @06:13PM (#8732700)
whois shows that the domain gmail.com was created back on Aug 13, 1995 [whois.net], which is actually before google.com domain was created (Sep 15, 1997 [whois.net]).
wayback [archive.org] has some listings for gmail.com, but it’s been blocked with a Robots.txt. I wonder what the history of the gmail.com domain is and if someone made some cash selling it to google?
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Re:It’s no lie…. (Score:5, Informative)
by hawaiian717 (559933) on Wednesday March 31, @09:24PM (#8733903)
(http://www.quanterium.com/)
GMail used to be the free email service offered for fans of Garfield [garfield.com] (the overweight lasanga-loving orange cat on the comics page). I notice that they now offer e-garfield.com emails instead.
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hey…looks like a dead thread (only 2 years since last post!)
I also was a ‘gmail’ user before google took the name… I was also an e-garfield user but it looks like it was removed a couple of weeks ago! Nothing on the main web site talking about (or at least that I could find!) Ah well, I would only receive spam at the email anyway!
if anyone want to have email from the same provider that e-garfield used, here’s another link:
http://mail.edgeemu.com/email/scripts/loginuser.pl
yeah me and my friend had a gmail account in junoir high, back when it was garfield email, but i stoped using it before they switched to e-garfield.com thanks for the info i was wondering what happened to garfield email.
oh and thanks for letting me know i can check out info on rheumatoid and amoxicillin guys… big help
Yeah, I used to have a gmail account back in highschool. It was my first free account after hotmail, and i used it lots… until one day for some reason garfield.com just decided to discontinue it, and then changed the host. I wonder if it’s because google bought it way back then… hmm.