Gmail wasn't Gmail but Garfield Mail !!!

A while ago when a fresh out of the plastic new organization called Google was getting its first stream of holy messenger venture from any semblance of Jeff Bezos and others, early netizens could as of now utilize an administration called G-mail in 1998. Predominantly, it was utilized by devotees of a specific corpulent, lasagna-adoring toon feline. For future information, contact Gmail tech support number (800) 674-2896 

A long time before Google appeared its now-universal email benefit in 2004, Garfield aficionados could get to the first G-mail (touted as "email with attitude") at gmail.garfield.com. The most punctual preview of the webpage on the Internet Archive is from December third, 1998, and a copyright on the page dates the support of some time in 1997. While some online sources have erroneously expressed something else, be that as it may, space "gmail.com" never had a place with Paws Inc, the toon studio claimed by Garfield maker Jim Davis. 

Points of interest on what this first G-mail incarnation did are insufficient. An answer to an off-site remark remarking on a Slashdot remark (phew) guarantees there was "something on the [Garfield] site that expected you to have a Garfield address," which may have driven recruits, however that analyst couldn't review what that something was. 

What we can state for certain is that unique G-mail clients were given the delightful address postfix "@catsrule.garfield.com." Evidence of this harvests up on all way of early web centers, including the USENET chronicles, Tripod, and Angelfire, and in addition somewhat more current destinations like GameFAQs, Ancestry.com, and FanFiction.net. 

The gossip that Google's utilization of the Gmail name constrained Jim Davis to move his email administration to e-garfield.com unobtrusively perseveres, in spite of the fact that the planning doesn't exactly coordinate. Google's Gmail was propelled April Fool's Day, 2004, while e-Garfield and its related email benefit were working since at any rate late December 2001. Davis, Google, and Commtouch (which gave the specialized spine to Garfield Mail, now renamed Cyren) did not react to demands for input, thus the passing of gmail.garfield.com remains a cool case.The e-garfield webpage was covered long back, and the area now seems to have rather frightening Japanese erotica, while sites facilitating any hint of either email addition drop more remote in indefinite quality and list items. 

Is Garfield's G-mail bound to be a peculiarity scarcely enlisting as a commentary in web history? An endeavor by Gizmodo to contact a @catsrule.garfield.com address did not produce the normal ricochet back - a notice that an email is undeliverable. More bizarre still, messages from a @catsrule.garfield.com address show up twice in Wikileaks' Syria records, by one means or another sent in 2010. In some shape or another, the first G-mail seems to in any casework.