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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by pilaf on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:39AM (#40042019)
> It was just a very good client that worked well but roughly the same as people were already used to.

UI-wise, yes, but GMail was also the first mainstream "AJAX" [1] app. Before it the expectation was that clicking on almost anything on the page would cause a full page refresh. GMail was in part revolutionary because of how snappy it felt for a webmail client.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by HNDen21 on Monday April 15, 2024 @01:30PM (#40043365)
I remember using OWA (Outlook Web Access) before that.. but you are right this is the one that stands out..... soon after this Digg was created and the onslaught of all the web 2.0 sites like delicious, flickr etc etc
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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by pilaf on Monday April 15, 2024 @09:23PM (#40047470)
After all XMLHttpRequest was a non-standard addition to the web API by Microsoft, specifically added for Outlook AFAIK. Firefox copied it though, so GMail could use it without sacrificing browser agnosticism.
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