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Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom, is a free Web-based email (Webmail) and POP3 e-mail service provided by Google. It was released on April 1, 2004 as a private beta release by invitation only, and was opened to all as a public beta on February 7, 2007.[1] With an original storage capacity of 1 GB, it drasticly increased the standard for free storage.Storage The service currently provides over 2880 megabytes of free storage[4], and paid storage of up to 250 GB, shared over Picassa and Gmail.[5] The increase from 1 GB was announced on April 1, 2005, and was made for the first anniversary of Gmail. The announcement was accompanied by a statement that Google would "keep giving people more space forever".[6] All Google will say about this now is that it will keep increasing by the second as long as they have enough space on their servers. Gmail's storage will increase with 145 MB a year (equating to almost 0.4 MB per day).[7] If the present growth rate continues unchanged, storage capacity will reach 3 gigabytes by the middle of 2008. Gmail can also be used as an alternative hard drive.[8] On August 9th 2007, some users of Gmail, reported that their storage capacity had been increased to 9030MB (8.8GB).[9] The 9030MB of space is a culmination of the users complete storage space within Google Account (Picasa etc). This development seemed to occur at about the same time that Google began allowing purchasable Picasa storage space that may be used throughout the rest of the gmail account. Programming Gmail makes use of Ajax (specifically, the AjaXSLT framework), employing modern browser features such as JavaScript, keyboard access keys and Web feed integration. This service offers more than 2,880 megabytes of free storage (as of August 2007, some people reported their storage bumped up to 9GB), a search-oriented interface and a unique 'conversation view'. Gmail is well-known for its use of the Ajax programming technique in its design.