The page deals with Lotus Notes as an email system, which is the only thing many places used it for. The email client was awful, but it was one part of a larger

The page deals with Lotus Notes as an email system, which is the only thing many places used it for. The email client was awful, but it was one part of a larger application platform that offered a client-server replicated database, a user interface toolkit, and document browsing. If you think of it as attempting to scratch some of the same itches that the Web and wikis do, you'll understand it more.