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On the signup page: > Each FREE mailbox account comes with 25MB of storage capacity, which is a lot more than what is offered by most free email providers. Thi
by newscracker 6y ago
On the signup page:
> Each FREE mailbox account comes with 25MB of storage capacity, which is a lot more than what is offered by most free email providers. This can allow you to store over 250,000 email messages.
This has not aged well since 2003. The amount of bloat in emails now is quite high since everybody who sends emails wants to use HTML with embeds while also inserting tracking pixels, images, links, etc.
- auxym 6y agoThe page also advertises flash games. Old school.
- dathinab 6y agoFun fact there are 3(+?) ways to embed images: 1. Using a link like in a normal website => might not load. 2. Using a data uri => increases mail size, there is no rfc as far as I know which states that this even had to be supported. 3. Using a cid , link as specified by the mail rfc => increased size and more complex (you basically put a link in the http body which refers to another body in the multiparty/mixed body it's in by the unique cid. Which is supposed to be works unique but quite to often is not.
- tylerrobinson 6y agoGmail blew our collective minds when they started with, what, 1 GB free? And the gimmicky counter on the login page showing increasing storage free forever at some rate of a few more kilobytes per second. As I recall, it was common to have 10 MB inbox storage for free email accounts around that time.