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Maybe Gmail was not the first free email, but was definitely the first massively adopted free email with a very high storage capacity. At Gmail's launch, Hotma
by cocoa19 6y ago
Maybe Gmail was not the first free email, but was definitely the first massively adopted free email with a very high storage capacity.
At Gmail's launch, Hotmail was offering only 2MB of free space, while Gmail was offering 1GB. At the time, that was a game changer, and how they captured a good chunk of the market.
- webmaven 6y ago> At Gmail's launch, Hotmail was offering only 2MB of free space, while Gmail was offering 1GB. At the time, that was a game changer, and how they captured a good chunk of the market. The 1GB storage was so ridiculously large, that many assumed it was an April Fool's joke (also because GMail was launched on April 1st).