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Communication and community
Email, social networks, forums and messaging: the Google services built for people to talk to each other. This is where Gmail and Orkut live, the social network Brazilians made their own.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Communication and communityOrkut, the Google social network that became Brazilian (2004–2014)
January 22, 2004 — Orkut was Google's first social network, created as an experimental project by the engineer it was named after, Orkut Büyükkökten.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Communication and communityGmail, the 1 GB email announced on April 1 (2004)
April 1, 2004 — Google announced Gmail on April 1, 2004: free search-based webmail with 1 gigabyte of storage per user.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Communication and communityGoogle Talk, messaging and voice for Gmail users (2005–2017)
August 24, 2005 — Google Talk was a free Windows program that combined instant messaging and voice calls over the computer, using the Gmail account and contacts.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Communication and communityGoogle Wave, email, chat and documents in one place (2009–2010)
May 28, 2009 — Wave combined email, instant messaging, wiki, forum and collaborative documents in one browser-based service.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Communication and communityGoogle Buzz, the social network inside Gmail (2010–2011)
February 2010 — Buzz launched inside Gmail and, in its initial settings, made users automatically follow the contacts they emailed most, and showed this publicly.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Communication and communityGoogle+, Google's big social bet (2011–2019)
June 28, 2011 — Launched on June 28, 2011 as a limited field trial, Google+ organized contacts into Circles and offered group video calls, Hangouts.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Communication and communityGoogle Hangouts, messaging and video calls in one app (2013–2022)
May 17, 2013 — In May 2013 Google introduced the new Hangouts, combining messaging, photos and video calls with up to 15 people on computers, Android and iOS, and able to replace Gmail chat and Talk on Android.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Communication and communityGoogle Allo, the messenger with the Assistant inside (2016–2019)
September 21, 2016 — Introduced on September 21, 2016 by Amit Fulay, Allo was the messaging app where Google Assistant debuted, as an English-only preview that could be called into a group chat with @google.