Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home from Monday, April 1st, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough. Today,

Gmail celebrates an appropriate April Fool's anniversary. The winners from the Lift IPO, Mark Zuckerberg

asks for regulation, and Food Tech has delivered a meatless wapper. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

I've made it very clear how I feel about April Fool's gags generally and I've mentioned that Google is probably

the worst offender in tech. Today for example they put out an Easter egg in Google Maps,

you can play the game Snake there or in Google calendar you can play a game

that's sort of like Space Invaders and actually there are several websites that are

tracking and keeping a running tally of the various multiple April Fool's jokes that Google is springing today.

But 15 years ago, Google had an April Fool's announcement that was one of the most monumental tech product announcements of all time.

Credit due.

That was Gmail.

When Google announced a web-based email service with one gigabyte of free storage per user,

it felt like an April Fool's joke.

I can't express to you how unbelievably generous that was at the time. Compared to the other storage options available at the time,

I remember not being entirely sure if it was a joke or not. And Gmail was one of the first

to use Ajaxi Goodness,

to become one of the first online apps that felt and functioned like a native app,

but in a web browser.

It was all sort of magical at the time, so it felt kind of unreal.

To celebrate Gmail's 15th birthday today, Google launched some new bells and whistles for

Gmail including email scheduling.

And if you're on Android, you're getting even more.

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