Editing Oddpost (section)

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'''Oddpost''' was a pay-for [[webmail]] service that debuted in 2002.<ref name=unraveled>{{cite web|url=http://unraveled.com/archives/2003/07/an_interview_with_ethan_diamond|title=An Interview with Ethan Diamond|date=2003-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051230032854/http://unraveled.com/archives/2003/07/an_interview_with_ethan_diamond | archive-date=December 30, 2005|url-status=dead}} mentioned that "Oddpost debuted last year"</ref> It pioneered the use of [[JavaScript]] to mimic a desktop mail application, the first notable foray into using [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]] methodologies for webmail. Ajax techniques minimized the amount of data sent during an email session by sending "Datapacks" instead of reloading the whole [[User Interface|interface]] on every click like a traditional webmail service ([[Hotmail]], [[AOL]]). This made the service much faster, at the time, than its counterparts.