What else is Gmail hiding from us? (Image source: androidheadlines)
Just save yourself some time on pronouncing the “dot” in your email.
19 Juli 2016 12:36
Brilio.net/en - Theres a certain level of stress that comes with picking an email domain, especially if you havent got the most unique name, or are just trying to get a new address that wasnt something along the lines of lifesabeach@aol.com. (Middle School was great, thanks for asking.) Sure, theres rather uncreative ways to stand out from the crowd, maybe throwing in the number of your birthday or placing. But Gmail has prevented one of the simplest, and arguably most elegant, ways of identifying yourself in wide world of the interweb.
According to the Google Support site, that little dot in your email address has absolutely no meaning at all. This example, featured on the website, proves just how little that dot really matters.
While it may come as news to most people, its actually been around for quite some time. But the dots still matter for some domain names, including Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo Mail and Apple iCloud. Facebook has joined Gmail on the train of not caring about the superfluous dot in in your address, while Twitter strictly prohibits it and most likely replaced it with an underscore.
The fun news? You can now add as many dots as you want. Your boss might just have the ominous ... follow his name, but hell never know.
