

Now under the umbrella of Google Drive, you'll find a file management and storage service as well as the various web-based and mobile apps. Google's online office suite of tools has done nothing but grow and improve. At the time, a product like Writely was unique (the software didn't come on a CD), and considered a gamble.įast forward to today. And it worked so well that Google bought Upstartle less than a year later. It allowed users to instantly save and retrieve content generated in the browser but stored on the server. A four-person company called Upstartle launched the online-only word processor in August 2005, taking advantage of a then-new browser technology called AJAX.
