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Gmail was launched in 2004 with 1GB of free storage, increasing to 2GB in 2005. Adjusting for HDD costs in those years compared to today (according to [1]) that
by wongarsu 3y ago
Gmail was launched in 2004 with 1GB of free storage, increasing to 2GB in 2005. Adjusting for HDD costs in those years compared to today (according to [1]) that's the equivalent of 40GB or 57GB today. And that's for the general public, not just educational institutions.
Not sure anyone gave you generous free FTP space back then, and Dropbox wasn't invented yet. But people did absolutely abuse gmail for file storage.
1: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...