Talk:History of Gmail

Fair use rationale for Image:Gmail multiple.jpg
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Launch year?
The very first sentence of the article references the April Fools' Day launch; however, it neglects to mention the year this occurred. This really should be corrected...

E-Garfield
Doesn't seem to be working http://www.e-garfield.com/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arcking (talk • contribs) 12:26, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

I checked the Garfield.com website and it looks like they're not offering the email service anymore. However, checking the www.gmail.com domain on The Wayback Machine shows some other company called USemail.net. Gmail takes over the domain by July 2000, according to the Wayback Machine, at least.--Valistar (talk) 03:50, 24 November 2007 (UTC) I don't think so. The July 2000 redirect to Gmail page (I think) is being caused by a technical error. See the Wayback Machine results for 2001-2003; it shows some company called NetConcept's homepage consistently. I think this reference to 'an email service by Garfield' is vandalism.

Merge?
Why is this it's own page? Shouldn't it be on the Gmail page. Utoks (talk) 15:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * As I see it, the page was split out of the History of Gmail section in the main Gmail article. Gmail is very long, so putting this back into the main page would be inadvisable. Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 00:51, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:FreeGmailBySearchingGoogle-small.png
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Why so many "citation needed"?
It looks like someone basically copy pasted a "citation needed" notice on nearly every section for no obvious reason. I mean, a couple perhaps need references, but others are, in my opinion, unquestionable. John Holly (talk) 16:56, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The tags are there because there no reference cited and the statements have been challenged as to whether they are correct or not under Wikipedia policy. The tags can be replaced with cited references or eventually the unsupported statements and the tags will be deleted.- Ahunt (talk) 20:11, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * When is this "eventually" supposed to happen? It has been nearly three years, and the article still looks like a mess.  I may try to research some of these and add citations, but the others I'm simply going to remove, unless I see actual challenges to the claims.  --Lewis (talk) 06:26, 1 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The tags are the challenges to the claims, so if the tags are removed then the text should go as well as "not verifiable", see WP:V. It is far better that the encyclopedia have no information rather than uncited or wrong information. As Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is quoted as saying "There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative "I heard it somewhere" pseudo information is to be tagged with a "needs a cite" tag. Wrong.  It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced." So if the items cannot be sourced they should be removed. - Ahunt (talk) 11:31, 1 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, since a week has passed without any further discussion and without any citations being found, I will go ahead and clean up the article, based on the age of the tags. Any of the statements can be put back in if refs are found. - Ahunt (talk) 18:45, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Link
Here is a very useful article from a reliable source for the improvement of this article. How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago -120.59.41.123 (talk) 12:34, 19 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I also see that this article can be used to provide references to many of the unverified claims (that were later removed due to lack of refs as per WP:Verifiability) made in this 2011 version of this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Gmail&oldid=464178119 -120.59.41.123 (talk) 12:34, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Malicious Link Removal
-- Gary  Dee  10:28, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Removing Malicious URL:
 * hxxp://gmailblog.blogspot.com
 * https://www.virustotal.com/de/url/6d820340a75d82952fa6ee75dbd0eb76f7a8c4494f30e57c98f6541937b610c7/analysis/
 * http://quttera.com/detailed_report/gmailblog.blogspot.com
 * SSLv3 outbound connection from client vulnerable to POODLE attack
 * https://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1417081382255
 * http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/website-safety-reports/domain/quttera.com/
 * http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/quttera.com/
 * https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3566
 * Did you read these reports? You removed links to the Gmail official blog because it uses outdated SSL? Not to worry it was reverted by another editor. - Ahunt (talk) 13:07, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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Gmail & Garfield the Cat
Gmail was orginally used by Garfield the Cat. Garfield got his start in Indiana. For the history of this visit:https://gizmodo.com/the-original-gmail-was-garfield-mail-1822970617 Srsurfin77 (talk) 19:38, 3 February 2023 (UTC)