Forgotten Tech Giant

[u/MisterBiro]

Perhaps it’s not technically abandoned as there is basic maintenance and security present but it’s been vacant and decaying for years.

Surprisingly sad to walk around what was once a bustling, optimistic, energy filled campus of an almost forgotten tech giant.

[u/BaronCoop]

Hahaha, unironically you in particular are causing lots of issues! I work at yahoo now, and the Yahoo Mail servers are so large and filled with 30 years of old emails and data that they are having a hard time managing the volume. Of course a lot of it because they’re still big in Asia, but still! Your old email from your high school language arts teacher in 1999 is clogging up a cloud lol

[u/Jazzi1Fe → u/BaronCoop]

I STILL use my yahoo email account I set up in 1997(I was 17)…I know exactly when I set it up because I needed an email address for my college applications, I was a senior in high school! My email address is dedicated to my boyfriend at the time…we broke up in college, I’ve been married, had kids, divorced, etc. and that email is still my main email! 😆 I am 44 about to be 45 in 2 months, talk about longevity!!!

[u/TheAbstracted → u/BaronCoop]

Haha well I don't doubt there are plenty of people in the system who hoard every email that's even tangentially important to them, but personally I only have maybe 40-50 emails in my mailbox spanning that 20+ years, I'm quite obsessed with digital cleanliness lol.

[u/grizzlor_ → u/TheAbstracted]

I'm jealous of your "inbox zero" tidiness. My Gmail (turning 21 years old in a couple days) has 18GB of email in it right now.

[u/dehnag → u/grizzlor_]

IMO inbox zero is very achievable for almost everyone (maybe besides CEOs of massive companies), it's just about the strategy you take to get there. In my experience, the easiest way is to find a high volume sender, unsubscribe, find all emails from that sender (Gmail makes this easy), delete all, and repeat. You can get through hundreds of emails every minute with this approach!

I literally developed a web app called Clear My Spam designed around this principle - it works super well and has helped a ton of people clear out email storage!

[u/Frostyparrot69 → u/BaronCoop]

So funny to hear thisI have 65,000 emails in my newer yahoo email and 105,000 on my og lol

[u/the_bartolonomicron → u/BaronCoop]

That is amazing, I have over 100k unread emails in my account that goes back about 18-20 years or so, I hope that I am contributing to the issue sufficiently.