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chronological

10.12.09

Relevance Over Time Company & Product Profiles, blog, chronological, real-time | Comments Off
When email was first created in 1965 it was used as a method to communicate between time-shared mainframe computers. Email has rapidly evolved since then, with the evolution of rich desktop clients, corporate email systems and webmail. Despite the evolution in the core messaging system, and despite the explosion in use of email, the default method for accessing and viewing communications has remained the same: chronological order. The first webmail imitated earlier mail clients by displaying messages in chronological order. The desktop computing paradigm was folders and files, sorted alphabetically. The web paradigm for accessing information has in most cases become ...