<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; "><div class="post-body"></div><div class="post-body"><br>We wanted to put it there yesterday, but given that <a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html">Gmail launched on April Fool's day</a> 2004 and has a history of joking around on April 1st since then, we did <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html">something else</a> instead. <br><br>In all seriousness, we want to give a big thank you to all of you who use Gmail every day, to those who've been around since the beginning, to those who were using an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29">AJAX</a> app before the term AJAX was popular, to those who started <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/chat-email-crazy-delicious.html">chatting</a> right in your email and then <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/say-hello-to-gmail-voice-and-video-chat.html">video chatting</a> a couple years later, to those who changed your <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/spice-up-your-inbox-with-colors-and.html">theme</a> on day one, and to those who have turned on some of the 43 experimental <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/introducing-gmail-labs.html">Gmail Labs</a> features (and put up with the occasional bugs they introduce)...we couldn't have gotten here without you. Thanks.<div style="clear: both; "></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; "><p class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-comment-link"></span><a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/gmail-turns-5.html" title="permanent link">Permalink</a> </p><p class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><br></p><p class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><br></p><p class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1">======================</p><p class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><br></p><p class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><a href="http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/20641/">http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/20641/</a></p><p class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"></p></div></span><span></span></body></html>