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Gmail's #1 selling point, as I remember it, was a much more generous amount of storage, for free. I think Hotmail had like 20MB of free email storage, Gmail had
by roywiggins 3y ago
Gmail's #1 selling point, as I remember it, was a much more generous amount of storage, for free. I think Hotmail had like 20MB of free email storage, Gmail had one gigabyte.
- bravetraveler 3y agoIndeed, storage! I think it grew for each person you invited, too, or some scheme like that...
- jtriangle 3y agoTrue, storage was also a thing, I remember using some hacked together GmailFS program, where you could split a large file among a bunch of email attachments that were sent to yourself and tagged, then you could download and reassemble those files anywhere. I used it to store FLV music videos I found, it was... the okayest form of cloud storage.