Google Blog: “Sign up for Gmail”

Alright, so this has been a very long time coming, but Google (unoffical motto:”Favourite Web Company of the Shinn Boys”) is now offering their ledgendary Gmail service to ANYBODY for FREE! Yesterday, if you didn’t have a Gmail account, it’s because either a) you weren’t cool enough or b) you didn’t know the right people. To get an account, you had to be invited by someone who already had an account (classic viral marketing). But TODAY, if you don’t have a Gmail account, it’s simply because (despite your best intentions) you haven’t visited gmail.com yet. Not to worry, though, I’m sure you’ll do it. Right after reading this blog post, in fact! And when you do, you’ll revel in the glory of e-mail organized by conversation and frolick in the meadow of 2+ gigabytes of free space. You’ll spend the rest of the day logged into gmail, thinking up labels with which to organize your correspondence instead of creating folders for your various e-mail interactions. Eventually you’ll get around to creating filters, so that your incoming e-mail ALREADY KNOWS where you want it to be! Oh, glorious day! And you’ll never lose information buried in your e-mail program, because with Google every scrap is available to you at the click of the “search” button. Yes, friends, today is a good day. A very good day. And the rest of us (who have been using Gmail since we were yeah-tall) are very happy for you.