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Email was there before outlook and Gmail and will still be long after Gmail sunsets it and Microsoft rebrands outlook to something like "Microsoft xbox delayed
by johnchristopher 8y ago
Email was there before outlook and Gmail and will still be long after Gmail sunsets it and Microsoft rebrands outlook to something like "Microsoft xbox delayed chat system".
- lilbobbytables 8y agoAnd it was productized before then. AOL being a huge one ("You've got mail"), and Hotmail also coming to mind.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoAnd email was around long before AOL or Hotmail.
- adventured 8y agoAnd nobody used it, relatively speaking vs the extraordinary scale that those email products made possible later. Hotmail had more users after 18 months than the total history of all email services on earth combined for the first two decades of email. If email was still as annoying to use as it was pre AOL & Hotmail, the general public still wouldn't be using it today.
- toadworrier 8y agoHow many people used any internet technology before there was even in Internet? But some people did use email.
- johnchristopher 8y agoGreat point. Webmail is a product that was massively adopted compared to regular clients.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoPerhaps, but no particular web implementation of email really stands out. (You might say Gmail, Gmail is really comparatively recent.) So a web interface on email push adoption further.