Creating Gmail (opens in new tab)

What happened to Buchheit's plan for COVID? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241786 the linked page is completely gone. At the time it seemed like another example of "computer guy tries to do medicine, fails miserably"

It is completely mind blowing to me that the first version of Gmail was built in a day. YC mindset before YC.

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