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Email Turns 34
34019 writes "The original Gmail engineer, Paul Buchheit, reminisces on the creation of email, and how he designed Gmail in hopes of it improving the way we communicate. From the article: 'Of course that wasn't the only reason why I wanted to build Gmail. I rely on email, a lot, but it just wasn't working for me. My email was a mess. Important messages were hopelessly buried, and conversations were a jumble; sometimes four different people would all reply to the same message with the same answer because they didn't notice the earlier replies. I couldn't always get to my email because it was stuck on one computer, and web interfaces were unbearably clunky. And I had spam. A lot of it. With Gmail I got the opportunity to change email - to build something that would work for me, not against me.'
We were plotting against Paul. We were trying to destroy his life, bit by bit.
-- Paul's former email
E-mail is throwing a birthday party! It's next week, the same day as Spam.
Unfortunately, they agreed that Spam should send the invites. Expect them in your mailbox soon along with the free drugs and Nigerian relatives.
Maybe google is waiting for gmail to turn 34 in order to promote it to a finale release and left the beta in the past.....
Your calendar needs spellcheck.
"From the article: 'Of course that wasn't the only reason why I wanted to build Gmail."
;) .
People tend to react badly if you come out and say, "strive toward complete world domination by the Google Corporation"
Advice for my fellow geeks: before seeking out that threesome you dream of, you might see what a TWOsome is like first.
34 is a round number in base-34 notation. That's why it's so important to observe this anniversary, in case any non-geeks who happened to be misdirected to this page for some strange reason were wondering.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Apple's # 64, in 1987.
Microsoft as usual played catch up in 1991, according to WHOIS records...
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
That's easily fixed; just edit Wikipedia.
It's electronic. It's words. It counts.
Heck you could even argue it's digital.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.