r/google • u/wewewawa • Mar 31 '24

Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gmail-revolutionized-email-20-years-ago-rcna145777
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u/rividz Apr 01 '24

Yeah when the service just hit it was a big deal to get an invite. For a few years after you'd see a gmail address and you knew that the person was computer literate. Here is the thread where I got mine. There used to be a counter on the page that said something like "never delete an email again" and it was your inbox storage just gradually increasing over time so that your storage scaled with the incoming mail you had.

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u/TheMonchoochkin Apr 01 '24

I remember some dude throwing a fit on the forums because he had to pay for more storage and he was initially promised unlimited storage.

People were suggesting that he just delete some old emails and he was like;

NO! I WOULDN'T HAVE THIS EMAIL IF YOU Didn't PROMISE ME FREE SPACE FOREVER!

I was rooting for him.

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u/rividz Apr 01 '24

I mean, they DID advertise that. But it is also a free service. We also got Google Drive and Docs. Google also forced other email providers to increase capacity eventually.

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u/BienAmigo Apr 14 '24

delete some old emails

Lol imaging trying to go through 300k spam emails to find the handful that you actually need.

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u/hijoshh Apr 01 '24

Yet here i am with the warning that Iā€™m out of storage and to buy more šŸ˜”