One of the nice things about Gmail at the time, was that you could access your emails when not home. If you were at a friend’s or on holiday at a net café, all you needed was to know your email and password.
That sounds silly, but at the time the majority of ISP mailboxes were pop only. Or those Webmails you could get were attached to what you would now think of comically small mailboxes. Full history Webmail added a convenience we didn’t get before.
She’ll get use to quickly. Our neighbour’s cats were like that at first, now they sit next to the charging pad like they own the place. They still get worried when it happens to be moving their way tho.