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You are going so back that gmail was served over HTTP (not HTTPS) in that era.

If that's the worst you have against Linux then it looks like it has done very well.

Not really, no. HTTPS was used, except for log-in only. But cookies traveled unencrypted, so you had access to the account anyhow.

And not just GMail, this was virtually every service out there. From a perspective, it's laughable how bad security was back then.