Okay how the hell do you get a Gmail account?

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Everyone seems to be getting them, like they're in on this big secret and I can't score one.

I know one way is just to be an active Blogger then you get the option of getting one; but is there still no other way?

Aargh my hotmail account is at 90% and it goes account critical every time I get one of those virii in the mail helphelphelp

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 22 April 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, can't you wait?

"Gmail is still in preview mode as we test it to work out the kinks. So for now, it's not generally available."

Ok so hotmail sucks the big one, ESPECIALLY on dial-up, but I'm biding my time.

― de, Thursday, 22 April 2004 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

A: No I can not.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 22 April 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Esp. When everyone else is getting one OMG WTF it isn't fair!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 22 April 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Those are the Special People. They're fair and have stars in their eyes and flowers in their hair.

― de, Thursday, 22 April 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Also tall smart and sociable. Bastards.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 22 April 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Elves are getting Gmail first?

― omg, Thursday, 22 April 2004 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

What is gmail?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 22 April 2004 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html

― de, Thursday, 22 April 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah but see of course I put my email there de, but they lie! They are giving them out already I tell you! I bet the thing on the bottom of that page just goes straight to /dev/null or whatever.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 22 April 2004 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe you. It's part of their strategy obv.
They're not going to need much help, mind you, unless Msn, Yahoo etc. steam in with vastly improved services, which they're prob. working on as we speak.
But by then gmail will have some cache. Amongst cool people, bloggers etc.

― de, Thursday, 22 April 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

This is weird, I received 2 invites but neither one is working, what is up?

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 9 May 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

My first thought was "gangstamail."

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

will you pimp my e-mail?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

'RJG has no idea that I about to PIMP HIS EMAIL!! Here we go, I'm just going to knock on his door and surprise the hell out of him...Yes, hi, Mr. Gillanders?! First off, wtf is this yahoo shit? I've prepared a place for you at fromthewindowsthethewalls.com."

― j0hnc3na4rillz (roxymuzak), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never seen an episode of pimp my e-mail, is it really like that?

I just got a new e-mail address! I've had the yahoo one for...6 years, I think. maybe 7. I have to get used to change, though, if I'm gonna get my gmail, soon. woo!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha ha

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 10 May 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're well and truly desperate:

http://search.ebay.com/gmail_W0QQfromZR8QQhtZ1QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQsosortpropertyZ1

― Matthew Cohen (flightsatdusk), Monday, 10 May 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

it's back on the blogger dashboard btw if you want to sign up.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 21 May 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Damnit, I'm supposed to have one of these. My girlfriend does, but she hasn't received any invites to give out yet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 21 May 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Where, Carsmile? It's not on mine :( (could that be because I haven't used my blogger accoutn for like 2 years?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 21 May 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i got one through blogger. but the funny thing is: I KANT USE IT CAUSE I HAVE APPLE KOMP-YOU-TAH. grrr.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 21 May 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

you can get it with safari - there's a "we're not compatible, but while we're in beta ..." link

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Google assume perpetual legal ownership of all your Gmail messages like they do your Orkut profiles and posts?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/05/google_revives_discredited_microsoft_privacy/

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/10/70639.aspx

― Bnad, Friday, 21 May 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely it would be easier just to come up with something worthwhile rather than trawl through a billion bits of shit to find the one gem.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Carsmile, Markelby, not on mine either, but I haven't posted since April 03. I just did two test posts, but still nothin'.

― korea, Friday, 21 May 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ditto, haven't posted since dec 03.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

HURRAY I GOT ONE! And I didnt even really need it, I dont use webmail! I feel like its been wasted on me :/ my boi is miffed cos he uses yahoomail heavily and his blogger didnt invite him :( I feel bad now!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 22 May 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

gmail is weird. is anyone else using it? you have to want to use it's features in order to make it worth using (threaded messages in particular), and doing that requires some rethinking on how to use email my part. you can't delete messages very easily which is also strange. but I haven't gotten any spam at it either which is refreshing.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

by "it's" of course I mean "its". fuck I hate that.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The threading is an interesting concept yeah and so far seems to have good and very bad points. It works well if you use it the way they want it to work - by top-posting all your replies, which I normally HATE PEOPLE DOING, but its the only way the threading will properly work (as what it does is clip off the quoted text below your new text into a link, so the whole back n forth convo looks like a neat forum board or something!)

The problem with this is, it does this by subject line. Which is fatally flawed because, for example, LJ "reply to your post" notifications all have the same subject line, but you wouldnt want those threaded because theyre not all related! So for something like that, its a bit useless.

I havent used it enough yet to see where else it is good and bad, and I dunno if the threading can be disabled (I should look into that). Im liking the idea of how they might be able to deal with spam (by having such a large repository of spam-tagged mail stored, they'll be able to get pretty smart eventually at stopping it before it gets to us).

But the threading... ugh, so far. But, it is still in beta - I should use my account for good and send them some suggestions I suppose.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend does like it but likewise says it's useless for LJ.

Re: the deleting thing, isn't the point that you'll almost never have to delete mail?

I still want one. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah I forgot about this thread! I ended up getting an account from some sympathetic person. I think it's going to end up being really good in the long run because my hotmail address is difficult to explain to people and it fills up and becomes "account size critical" if I don't log in and delete stuff like literally every single day.

I'm in the process of moving my archived emails from hotmail to gmail and even though I got a program that makes it a lot less laborious it's still a pain because hotmail only lets an account do 100 emails a day, so it's taking me several weeks.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Im a bit confused over the deleting thing - Ive deleted mail without a problem, whats the issue with it being a problem? You delete it, it goes to the trash, then you delete the trash. It rather cheekily then tells you "why delete? You have 1000mb space!" but it deletes it anyway. Of course, their T&C says "residual material" may remain on the system but Im sure that applies to all webmail really.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I just mean that there isn't a delete button for every message, the way there is for most webmail . Or if there is I overlooked it.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh? You can select any or all emails by the checkbox to the left, then from the "more actions" dropdown, select "move to trash". Then click yer trash folder, and select "delete forever" if you want them totally blown away. Not the clearest system, I admit.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

that's what I mean, it's hidden in a dropdown "action". I'd rather there just be a "delete" submit button; this makes me think they don't want you to delte anything for some reason. Bad usability! But it's still in beta.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah thats a fair point, and likewise that rude "you dont HAVE to delete stuff!" comment goes in the same vein. I can see some privacy paranoia nuts having issue with this, but eh whatever. Agreed, its in beta - we have the chance to make suggestions, and so should.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

OK I signed up for Blogger and created a one-entry blog. How do I get a Gmail account from this? There don't seem to be any obvious links to it...

― DougD, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I dont think just signing up for a blogger now will get you an account - in fact not even all blogger account holders got one. Only "active" users, and I dunno what they class as active - I'd used mine in March and I got one, but my b/f hadnt used his since last Sept I think and he didnt get one.

If you do get one tho, you'll see a large notice on the blogger dashboard page on the right that mentions gmail and you follow the links. If thats not there, no banana :(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Meanwhile the Calfornia Senate votes to restrict some of GMail's terms of service

The bill by Democratic state Sen. Liz Figueroa would require Gmail to work only in real-time and would bar the service from producing records.

The bill also would bar Gmail form collecting personal information from e-mails and giving any information to third parties.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 28 May 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Thats an interesting conundrum. I'd agree with it, in the sense that there's a potential for say, the govt, to demand a handover of someones email for "investigation" or some rubbish. However that can be asked of an ISP now as it stands - the only difference (and the crucial one, I guess) being that with POP3 mail you download and delete it off thr ISP's mail server.

I'm hardly going to be using a webmail account for anything sensitive (eg work related, full personal info etc) anyway.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 29 May 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

would require Gmail to work onliy in real-time

does this make any sense to anyone?

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 29 May 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

People at my work claim to be calling people 'in real-time.' Like you can call them on delay. Yeah, that'd work.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 May 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to get to the part where I can trade Gmail invites for geekgirl tail.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What's this, it appears I can't invite people anymore? Oh, illusions of grandeur and influence!

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

What d'you mean "anymore" Leee? So far I havent seen any invites on my gmail account at all (I already have 2 people after me for an account... yeesh its LJ all over again).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Garn, I signed up purely to reap material benefit. And also to break people's hearts, but now it would seem that my heart is at stake. I dismissed my blogger offer when it first appeared, and only read today that hipsters are after this and were willing to give up things.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

You know ladies and gents, it pays to read:

"As we make way for more accounts, we may periodically allow you to invite others to join Gmail. When we do so, you will see an invitation link in your inbox."

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Thats what I meant ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 650 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I've got plenty of invites tre baker at g mail dot com.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm handing 'em out, as well. The address below works dandy.

Looks like there's more people offering now than asking.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i have 6 invitessssssssss

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I had heaps of invites, then they all disappeard before I could give them to anyone! GMAIL WHY U BREAK HEART?

― haitch haitch haitch (or any three repetitive sounds) (haitch), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got tons too: texana@gmail.com

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still trying to get rid of mine

lukasb@

― Lukas (lukas), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got 2

richardgin@

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

ive got 6.

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a ton

― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

gmail makes email v. easy. it's like chat!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 13 February 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

For anyone who wants one...

http://isnoop.net/gmail/

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 13 February 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll have an invite if anyone feels like giving one out...

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure what address do you want me to send it to?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheers. That's my real e-mail address above.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

sent

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks again.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

"Top" "showbiz" "reporter" Billy Sloan has an article in today's Sunday Mail about how Alan Cummings has just got a Gmail account and offers invites as a chat-up line. "Only the rich and famous have been offered accounts and the change to invite friends to sign up, making it the coolest pcik-up line in the States". I could shag my way round half of Hollywood with my "exclusive" batch of 50 invites.

Article not on-line, sadly, but isn't it nice to know that the Scottish popular media is so up-to-date with this here modern interweb?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 March 2005 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Only the rich and famous have been offered accounts"

Is this article from about last year? Who doesn't have Gmail these days? I can't get rid of my invites. ;-)

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to make the point that this is how crap our local papers are here, in that this was in TODAY'S paper, and is what constitutes showbiz "news". The article goes on to say that people are buying invites off ebay. Are people still really doing that?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

Um, holy shit: Gmail is now up to TWO gigs of storage.
Which makes me do the happy dance.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 April 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Subject: Gmail for wizardishu-----NO-----ngry.com beta tester invitation

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

i've had my account for all of 2 months and i'm already at 20% what the fuck

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

no wai

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Yep. I don't know why, when anyone can just post to any message board and get them for free.

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I see that what some sellers are doing is "selling" invites by having 1 cent auctions and giving away the invites for free in return for positive feedback. Lame.

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

lol @ us

― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 29 September 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

didn't some indian guy put out a press release when he got a gmail account?

― caek, Monday, 29 September 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

that was heave inviting you to the 1p3 blog

― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Monday, 29 September 2008 01:51 (seventeen years ago)

Hahah "I dont even use webmail" says me and now gmail is the only thing I use, I fwd all my other accounts to it.

― Trayce, Monday, 29 September 2008 01:56 (seventeen years ago)

I still need a Gmail account! I know it must be possible to get one somehow!

― Dan I., Monday, 29 September 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

Dan, I've got an invite for you if you want it.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 29 September 2008 04:05 (seventeen years ago)

Hahah "I dont even use webmail" says me and now gmail is the only thing I use

^^^This is me too.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 September 2008 04:26 (seventeen years ago)

You dont need invites any more you can just create gmail accounts now.

― Trayce, Monday, 29 September 2008 04:38 (seventeen years ago)

can i have a invite

― For technical assistance, please contact our Support Team (electricsound), Monday, 29 September 2008 04:41 (seventeen years ago)

Go here, select Gmail.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 September 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

I don't understand why they even made this thing if it's impossible to get an account! I think Gmail is just a big April fool's joke or something! Well someone should tell those guys at Google that no one's laughing and it's not even close to April!

― Dan I., Monday, 29 September 2008 05:00 (seventeen years ago)

jeez its easier to get a waffles invite

― For technical assistance, please contact our Support Team (electricsound), Monday, 29 September 2008 05:03 (seventeen years ago)

please send me an invite

― s1ocki, Monday, 29 September 2008 05:27 (seventeen years ago)

guys i have invites webmail me if intersted

― goole, Monday, 29 September 2008 05:31 (seventeen years ago)

I actually sold an invite on ebay at one point for $80 (and some more for decreasing amounts a few days later). haha.

― akm, Monday, 29 September 2008 06:11 (seventeen years ago)

Fun Fact: Gmail was launched on April Fools Day 2004.

― You should be an artist, in in your shower. (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 29 September 2008 06:17 (seventeen years ago)

and it's STILL in beta.

― You should be an artist, in in your shower. (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 29 September 2008 06:18 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

so you can send texts from gmail now?

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 December 2008 09:40 (seventeen years ago)

you have to activate it first in Labs I think.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 12 December 2008 10:04 (seventeen years ago)

go to settings -> labs -> Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 12 December 2008 10:05 (seventeen years ago)

oh shit, thght you asked how to do that. anyway only works for us phones currently.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 12 December 2008 10:06 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i know how to do it

i was just updating the world

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 December 2008 10:23 (seventeen years ago)

is gmail fucking up for anybody else???

i cant even load it this morning

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, 14 December 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

just checked mine,a-ok

― penice (velko), Sunday, 14 December 2008 11:01 (seventeen years ago)

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