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Re:What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it d... by wolco on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:29PM (#22410693)
It was novel to release gmail at that scale in javascript. It hasn't been done before. 1Gb was a crazy size.

Anybody remember gmail invites?

Re:What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it d... by wyclif on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:39PM (#22410736)
I remember Gmail invites. Ironically, Evan Williams (formerly of Twitter, now of Medium, at the time working at Google after they bought Blogger) was the person who sent me mine—and on the morning of April 1st, 2004. So I've had a Gmail account since the first day it was publicly available.
Re:What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it d... by treebornfrog on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:43PM (#22410752)
Yes, had one from an uncle.

I then realised that I could invite a second account, so I created a handful of accounts and still own them today.

Good times.

Re:What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it d... by airstrike on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:27AM (#22413882)
I actually got an invite from Google because I was on blogger.com back then (sad to admit it...)

I probably could have picked [email protected] were it not for the 6 letter minimum, so ended up with [email protected] which still yields an absurd amount of messages meant to a variety of other recipients...

Re:What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it d... by Semaphor on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @04:34AM (#22411910)
Sure, I bought one off ebay for 0.10€ :D