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gmail.com

I have invites if you’re interested!

you guys are children so probably don’t even remember having to hustle to get very rare and exclusive gmail invites back in the day. gmail was a very early tech scene status symbol

we remember. 

and you just reminded. how old. we are now.

ok i just confirmed. i was 14 years old when i got access to gmail. i remember vividly how hard it was for me as a suburban dweeb with zero connections to tech industry to get an invite. after prolly a year of trying to get access i found out that a 3rd cousin at a family reunion worked in “tech” and he gave me an invite

𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙾𝙽: @vision 👁️ ✦  ensdata.net ✦ pugson.net/rfe ✦ 𝙿𝚄𝙶.𝙴𝚃𝙷 ✦ 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚅: @rainbow 🌈 

Firstname.lastname@gmail.com for my entire family and at the time, my dog ;)

Google+ is the one that embarrasses me in retrospect

i do in fact remember needing an invite from a university friend of mine

have a coveted normal name gmail address (which replaced my loadmail address)

a few people share my name and i still get emails for them as a result

Damn. Forgot about that. 2005, high school. I definitely should not go back and read those emails.

Ah, the golden days of hustling for Gmail invites! Feels like we were part of a secret tech club.

Gmail invites were a nostalgic symbol of exclusivity in the early tech scene.