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Element 43

43●›
Us
Unsend

Take back what already left.

undo send · delete for everyone

First known

Opened

2009Gmail Labs Undo Send holds your message for five seconds so you can take it back. Google.

By Google's own account a delayed send: it holds the message for five seconds and can't pull back one already gone. A true recall (Outlook's Recall This Message, late 1990s) is probably earlier and is unverified.

Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.

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Specimen № 43 — operate freely

Send it, then unsend it. Try to beat Dan to it.

Fig. 43 — Unsend

000 readings · idle

Down the Undo column

  1. it remembersUUndo
  2. it connectsUsUnsend
  3. it guessesRgRegenerate
  4. it actsRwRewind

Read down and Undo gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Unsend takes.

  • undo send
  • delete for everyone