{"id":8640,"date":"2014-04-01T17:10:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T21:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2014-04-01T17:10:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T21:10:43","slug":"how-gmail-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/01\/how-gmail-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gmail Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/43263\/gmail-10th-anniversary\/\">Harry McCracken<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/time.com\/43263\/gmail-10th-anniversary\/\"><p>If you wanted to pick a single date to mark the beginning of the modern era of the web, you could do a lot worse than choosing Thursday, April 1, 2004, the day Gmail launched.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Within Google, Gmail was also regarded as a huge, improbable deal. It was in the works for nearly three years before it reached consumers; during that time, skeptical Googlers ripped into the concept on multiple grounds, from the technical to the philosophical. It&rsquo;s not hard to envision an alternate universe in which the effort fell apart along the way, or at least resulted in something a whole lot less interesting.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry McCracken: If you wanted to pick a single date to mark the beginning of the modern era of the web, you could do a lot worse than choosing Thursday, April 1, 2004, the day Gmail launched. [&#8230;] Within Google, Gmail was also regarded as a huge, improbable deal. It was in the works for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[150,14,433,51,295,96],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-email","tag-emailclient","tag-gmail","tag-google","tag-history","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}