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		efreak on Dec 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and ... Gmail, Docs, and Calendar weren't around in 2000. The first release of Gmail wasn't until invite-only beta in 2004[0] (invites were required until 2006/7); Google bought Upstartle (Writely -> Docs) and released Docs and Calendar in 2006[1][2]. [0]: http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2004/04/google-gets-message-... [1]: http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-announces-goo... [2]: http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-calendar_13.h...

krylon on Dec 5, 2018 [–]

The premise was, if someone had told me ten years ago, which is 2008.

You are correct, of course, none of that stuff existed in 2000. 2000 was just the year I started using GNU/Linux. ;-)

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