Gmail Paper Explained
Google just introduced a new service that seems a great idea, and a free one. With Gmail Paper you can print one, one thousand, or one hundred thousand of your emails. Photo attachments are also printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip.
The service would be free, supported by bold, red advertisements printed on the back of the printed messages: "The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica."
Gmail Paper offered to allow users of Google's free webmail service to add e-mails to a "Paper Archive," which Google would print (on "96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum") and mail via traditional post.
Forget about it, this is 2007 Google's April Fool's Day Joke. As you may have guessed, Gmail Paper is not a real product or feature of Gmail. "No, we don't plan on sending you boxes and boxes of your email in hard copy form".
Google has had a tradition of perpetrating April Fool's Day hoaxes:
- 2000: Google MentalPlex
- 2002: Pigeon Rank
- 2004: Google Lunar/Copernicus Center
- 2005: Google Gulp
- 2006: Google Romance
- 2007: Gmail Paper & Google TiSP
UPDATE: Google announces TiSP (BETA), a new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and Google will send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle, wireless router and installation CD.
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