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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by wredue on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:34AM (#40041936)
Gmail was unlimited space, and invite only in the early days.

The main reason for success was that Google was still generally seen as a not evil company, while other mail providers were garbage/evil.

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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by gsharma on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:39AM (#40042020)
Initially, people sold these beta invites on eBay!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/gmail-accoun...

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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by HNDen21 on Monday April 15, 2024 @01:41PM (#40043490)
I remember those, you got 5 of them... later Google Wave also had invites .. which was cool but ended up in the graveyard anyway... Lifehacker's Gina Trapani even wrote a guide to Google Wave but I believe Wave was killed right before after it was published
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