{"id":984495,"date":"2026-01-10T08:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984495"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:18:01","slug":"gmail-launched-on-april-fools-day-in-2004-now-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-gives-it-a-gemini-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/10\/gmail-launched-on-april-fools-day-in-2004-now-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-gives-it-a-gemini-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail launched on April Fools\u2019 Day in 2004, Now Google CEO Sundar Pichai gives it a Gemini makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Gmail was launched as a prank on April Fools\u2019 Day? While there\u2019s little substance to that theory, Gmail was originally launched on April Fools\u2019 Day in 2024 in Google\u2019s attempt to take a chance in the email section. More than two decades later, Gmail\u2019s history isn\u2019t unknown to anyone. The free email service is now used by over 3 billion people on the planet, and 21 years down the line, Google wants to give it a proper Gemini upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Gmail was launched as a prank on April Fools\u2019 Day? While there\u2019s little substance to that theory, Gmail was originally launched on April Fools\u2019 Day in 2024 in Google\u2019s attempt to take a chance in the email section. More than two decades later, Gmail\u2019s history isn\u2019t unknown to anyone. The free email service is now used by over 3 billion people on the planet, and 21 years down the line, Google wants to give it a proper Gemini upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}