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Re:How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten y... by eropple on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @10:21AM (#7508349)
> It's easy to buy your own domain name and use it with Google.

Consider historical context. It wasn't easy a decade ago.

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Re:How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten y... by danieldk on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @11:03AM (#7508722)
It was. I had domains in ~2000 or so. And even then, many registrars then provided DNS servers, e-mail forwarding, web forwarding, etc.
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Re:How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten y... by eropple on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @11:50AM (#7509176)
That's easy for a moderately to highly technical person. The problem tseabrooks identified is exactly that it's not easy for everybody else--especially when that everyone else doesn't have a lens through which to view the potential problem.
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Re:How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten y... by scholia on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @12:22PM (#7509445)
Context: It's not so easy for everybody, but it's actually not hard. It's well within the capabilities of the average HN reader...
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Re:How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten y... by eropple on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @01:20PM (#7509950)
Fixing the problem for "the average HN reader" doesn't fix the problem.
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Re:How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten y... by scholia on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @02:24PM (#7510526)
True, but this was an HN post. It wasn't about everybody.
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Re:How Gmail happened: The inside story on its launch, ten y... by tomasz207 on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @12:53PM (#7509697)
1&1 advertisements from the back of Wired magazine 10 years ago prove otherwise.
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