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Re:Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks by womansplainer on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @04:57AM (#31177820)
Oddpost was before Gmail and functioned almost exactly like native outlook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddpost

MS themselves had fairly functional Outlook web interface in 1995 (and was the reason XMLHTTPRequest was introduced

Re:Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks by tomhoward on Thursday April 28, 2022 @02:38AM (#31189384)
Oddpost was such an inspiration as to the kind of UX that was possible via the browser.