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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by danoise on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:21AM (#18510461)
As I understand it, also the multi-user features in Google Docs, Sheets were salvaged from Wave? If this is the case, there's a pretty big part of the codebase actually living on...
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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by hjnilsson on Thursday November 22, 2018 @12:07PM (#18511131)
Google docs had multi-user features before Wave. Back when it was called writely.com even. Some features scattered out onto other Google products though (like hangouts).
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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by lmm on Thursday November 22, 2018 @11:47AM (#18511024)
> the multi-user features in Google Docs, Sheets were salvaged from Wave?

I thought they were taken from Etherpad (which Google bought and killed)?

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