# What happened to Google Wave?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-google-wave/536976>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 22, 2010, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-google-wave/536976 "2010-04-22T11:51:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-google-wave/536976/21 "2010-05-01T18:09:13Z")

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I don’t know that it “replaces” e-mail so much that it does a lot of things far better than e-mail. Nor does it “replace” instant messaging, but a conversation in Wave totally blows any instant messaging system out of the water.

Trying to manage a complex project via e-mail or IM is a recipe for frustration and confusion. Wave combines the immediacy of IM, the permanency of e-mail and the flexibility of a blog.

Plenty of people are still very excited about this. If you have a Wave account, go to Extensions in the Navigation pane and have a look at all the things Wave fans have created. Basically, right now it’s at the Netscape 0.97 stage compared to what it will be like.

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**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-google-wave/536976/22 "2010-05-01T18:35:48Z")

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I’ve been trying to use it to play dungeons and dragons on. Not so useful, really.

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