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It was novel to release gmail at that scale in javascript. It hasn't been done before. 1Gb was a crazy size. Anybody remember gmail invites?
by wolco 7y ago
It was novel to release gmail at that scale in javascript. It hasn't been done before. 1Gb was a crazy size.
Anybody remember gmail invites?
- wyclif 7y agoI remember Gmail invites. Ironically, Evan Williams (formerly of Twitter, now of Medium, at the time working at Google after they bought Blogger) was the person who sent me mine—and on the morning of April 1st, 2004. So I've had a Gmail account since the first day it was publicly available.
- treebornfrog 7y agoYes, had one from an uncle. I then realised that I could invite a second account, so I created a handful of accounts and still own them today. Good times.
- Semaphor 7y agoSure, I bought one off ebay for 0.10€ :D
- airstrike 7y agoI actually got an invite from Google because I was on blogger.com back then (sad to admit it...) I probably could have picked firstname@gmail.com were it not for the 6 letter minimum, so ended up with firstlast@gmail.com which still yields an absurd amount of messages meant to a variety of other recipients...