I remember when Gmail was fist launched. It was the future. We'd recovered from the dot com burst and I suddenly could see how this was going to work again. To

I remember when Gmail was fist launched. It was the future. We'd recovered from the dot com burst and I suddenly could see how this was going to work again. To use Gmail then you had to get an invite which was a bit of a problem. I asked around for days, if not weeks (can't remember) and when I finally signed up, I also had invites to give away. I think there where 10. Later this was set to 100 and eventually I was removed all together. Today Gmail is a bit of a shadow of it former glory, after the Google UX nazis got their hands on it I guess...