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The innovation of Gmail was “so much storage you never have to delete emails again”. The UI wasn’t too different from contemporary incumbents such as Hotmail.
by skrebbel 3y ago
The innovation of Gmail was “so much storage you never have to delete emails again”. The UI wasn’t too different from contemporary incumbents such as Hotmail.
- toyg 3y agoIt had that as well, and undoubtedly it was the main attraction, but iirc it was already not refreshing the whole page when clicking on the email index to read a single email - if not at launch, very shortly after. They later added "html mode" for compatibility with older browsers.
- zztop44 3y agoStorage was definitely the killer feature, but I remember thread view, good search and AJAX navigation to be significant improvements over eg hotmail at the time