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> it existed for like fifteen minutes between Orkut but before Google+, and had the wildest features like your profile image had to be smiling. "No, wider," it
by mkl95 3y ago
> it existed for like fifteen minutes between Orkut but before Google+, and had the wildest features like your profile image had to be smiling. "No, wider," it would say. Sometimes it would just accept a frowning image and modify it to be smiling
Actually, that was Google Folks. It was followed by Google People which was then renamed to Google Town. They shared bleeding edge features such as instant messaging and videotelephony.
- Waterluvian 3y agoI think my favourite phase of that journey was when they grew to Google City and got sued by then-Maxis. At least the whole legal kerfuffle brought us Sim Google (which I have an unopened copy of!)
- testplzignore 3y agoThe functionality eventually made its way into Google Pay. No, not that Google Pay, the other one. No, not that one either, the other one!
- mkl95 3y agoMy personal favorite was this weird spinoff called Google Coin. The app made random metallic sounds and the loading animation was a spinning coin. Too bad it was cancelled after three months.