Gmail was originally called Garfield Mail (as in the cartoon cat).

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Gmail was originally called Garfield Mail (as in the cartoon cat).

Introduced by Google in 2004, Gmail is currently one of the most popular email services in the world. But back in the late 1990s, Gmail was something very different. The original Gmail was a feature offered to fans of Garfield, the snarky cartoon cat. Described as "e-mail with attitude" and available via gmail.garfield.com, users received an address suffix that ended in "@catsrule.garfield.com," according to Gizmodo.