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What Gmail Did to Email

Gmail is email and email is Gmail — but what else could there be?

Its autocomplete feature, for example, suggests words or phrases that you can use in emails as you type, which I suppose can be useful but I often find to be a pain in the neck, as the proposed language interrupts my train of thought. Back in the dark ages before Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and other free cloud-based apps, most email happened either via paid services or inside of walled gardens. Which is how I can currently quickly find emails from friends, family, and colleagues about upcoming meetings, previously taken trips, or that book I promised to lend someone many years ago.

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