An Excuse To Drink – April 1, 2004: G-Mail Is Launched
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It hardly seems real, but it’s been 10 years since Google launched its free email service, Gmail during an invitation-only preview. It would be opened up to the general public a few years later in Feb 2007. It was the first free email service to offer a then- unheard-of 1 Gb of storage . Many people rightly believed that it was an April Fool’s Day hoax.
The “G” Mail
recipe by Clarence Yoder
Yoder, a Northern Virginia native, came up with this combination as a riff on the classic “Airmail” cocktail.
- 1 1/2 oz. Green Hat Gin
- 3/4 oz. fresh lime juice
- 1 oz. honey syrup (1 part honey to 1 part water)
- 1 oz. sparkling wine
- Angostura Bitters
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.