Google Wave started with a single question: “What would email look like if it were invented today?”This question gave rise to one of the most ambitious real-time collaboratio… See more

Wave’s story started in October 2004 when Google bought a mapping startup called Where 2 Tech. That acquisition came bundled with a fledgling technology that would even… See more

In May 2009, Lars, Jens and product manager Stephanie Hammond previewed Wave at Google’s I/O conference. In one fell swoop, Walkabout officially became a product, pl… See more

Although everyone at the I/O conference would get early access to Wave, Lars and the others stressed that the tool was still in active development. The team understood that there … See more

The long-awaited support for Groups was added to Wave in December 2009, seven months after the platform had been publicly announced at I/O. In January 2010, Groups were follow… See more