Gmail
Gmail is reported to have over 1 billion users. That statistic was back in 2016. Chances are you own a Gmail account and use it as your primary email. Let's look at some fun facts about the world's most favorite used webmail client. 1990's - The man responsible for the creation of Gmail is a man named Paul Buchheit. As a college student, he was already working on a prototype for a personalized webmail client. 2001 - Buchheit works for Google and is assigned the task to create a personal web based product. He then officially creates the project that will be known to the world as Gmail. So at that time, what was the big deal about Gmail anyway? Hotmail and Yahoo were dominating the market. But not for long, thanks to a scripting language called Javascript and a frame work known as AJAX. Google wanted a more profitable, efficient, user friendly email client. By using Javascript they were able to create a more dynamic web product. Gmail is a stark example of the eme...