# Gmail turns 20 today.

**Published by:** [Andrei](https://paragraph.com/@andrei-3/)
**Published on:** 2024-04-03
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@andrei-3/gmail-turns-20-today

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The creation of the service was kept secret until the start of closed beta testing, and development took 3 years. At the time of release, it offered 1 GB of storage, keyword search and sorting of letters into folders. Gmail came out of beta testing after 5 years, and by 2012 it had 425 million active users.

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