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I remember this. They announced it on April 1st, which naturally led everyone to suspect it was an April Fools. The idea that they would offer one gigabyte of s
by big85 5mo ago
I remember this. They announced it on April 1st, which naturally led everyone to suspect it was an April Fools. The idea that they would offer one gigabyte of storage on a free email service, when competitors offered more like 25 MB, seemed impossible. However, Google had already made their April Fools joke for 2004 about a new operating system being developed for a moon base.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_April_Fools'_Day_jokes#2004 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_April_Fools'_Da...>
- chistev 5mo agoWow, you've been at this a long time. How quickly did the competition react? Edit:Thanks for the April fool's day link. I didn't know about those.
- big85 5mo agoAccording to Wikipedia: > Most major webmail providers, including Yahoo! Mail, increased their mailbox storage in response. Yahoo! first announced 100 MB of storage for basic accounts and 2 GB of storage for premium users. However, soon Yahoo Mail increased its free storage quota to 1 GB, before eventually allowing unlimited storage from March 27, 2007, until October 8, 2013.
- Bender 5mo agoMy favorite was GMail Tap [1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvILQlLZsFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvILQlLZsFU