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Paul Buchheit, Creator of Gmail

The Social Radars

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How Did You Get Into Gmail?

Google bought Deja News, the old original Internet message board. It's an archive that goes all the way back to the 70s. Google didn't want to maintain their code because it was some completely different code base written and I think tickle. We had a deadline because their whole data center was shutting down or something like that.

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