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> first with the advent of email “conversation” threads Google did not invent email conversations. Most email clients worth their salt could sort email based o
by adiM 14y ago
> first with the advent of email “conversation” threads
Google did not invent email conversations. Most email clients worth their salt could sort email based on thread since at least 1999/2000 (and also before that I only started using computers around that time).
- MrDubious 14y agoPerhaps, but none of the other webmail clients had that, and Outlook didn't. While it may have been an available feature, it certainly wasn't in any way widespread.
- thrownaway2424 14y agoThe way Gmail groups and sorts conversations is not the same as the way a threaded email client does or did it. Here's a random example of the way almost all three-pane, graphical, threaded MUAs looked for years: http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/c/claws_mail-187368-1.jpeg http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/c/claws_mai... Gmail did it differently and was considered innovative. Some people who had always used threaded readers hated and still hate it. Other people like it better, or never used the old way.