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Was it though? Gmail is just a frontend to a system of services running in a data center. All Gmail does on our computers is display data, accept commands, and
by danaliv 9y ago
Was it though? Gmail is just a frontend to a system of services running in a data center. All Gmail does on our computers is display data, accept commands, and relay those commands to a server.
- s73ver_ 9y agoThat's a pretty gross oversimplification of things. One of the sibling comments has a pretty good comparison of what Gmail is doing that most 80s email clients weren't.