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I was pretty surprised that gmail was successful. I didn't imagine that people wouldn't care that their email wasn't on their own computer. But, there you go.
by mhb 8y ago
I was pretty surprised that gmail was successful. I didn't imagine that people wouldn't care that their email wasn't on their own computer. But, there you go.
- wild_preference 8y agoWell, people had been using hosted email from their ISPs, AOL, Hotmail, etc. long before Gmail. Gmail came out and offered an insane amount of storage, basically toppling the regime. So surely Gmail wasn't the one that surprised you. That ship had long sailed before then.