When was docs established

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He took a few minutes to talk to The Verge about the building blocks of Google Docs, the persistence of email, and why killing the Save button still freaks people out. You can find him on Twitter at sschillace. Back when you were at Writely, why did you try to build collaborative document editing? Is that even what you were trying to build, initially? Gmail was about a year or so old at the time, so we knew the browsers could support the kind of code we needed to write which they could, but just barely at the time.

When we went to Google, Writely was internally adopted very quickly — something like 90 percent of the company was using it in the first month. Which always made it funny when someone would tell me that browser-based apps were a bad idea that would never work. Was it straightforward, or hacked together using new technology?

Hacked together, mostly. The browser did most of the heavy lifting with the editor surface itself though in later iterations the Google team had to write a new editor completely in Javascript because of limitations in that system. The client-side Javascript was pretty straightforward, only about 10 pages of code, mostly just dealing with merging changes from other users and generating deltas from your own changes.

What kinds of decisions did you have to make along the way, like do you keep margins? Page breaks? Do you kill the Save button once and for all? We made a deliberate bet that users would want speed, convenience and collaborative features enough that we could ignore richer functionality like rich formatting, margins, pagination, etc. This turned out to be true in the early days but as we got deeper into the market, we realized that some of that functionality was either important enough to everyone, or helpful enough in opening up the market to new users, to be worth the pain of implementing it.

The Save button is kind of funny. Will email always exist or will we move to even shorter forms of communication like Twitter, text, etc?

I think email will exist as some kind of communication substrate for a long, long time. The abstractions of domain, address, mailbox, message, attachment, reply, etc are so fundamental and useful.

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