[_bxg1]

I had an (evil; don't do this) idea a while back to create a Dropbox-like program that stores all your data as binary chunks attached to draft emails spread across an arbitrary number of free email accounts.

[mmastrac]

This existed just after gmail launched. Can't recall the name of the program, but I played around with it to store a few hundred MB in a test account.

[hcs]

GmailFS? https://web.archive.org/web/20060424165737/http://richard.jo...

[mmastrac]

That might have been it!

[follower]

Yeah, there were a couple of different ones wrote a bit more about them in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19917018

[qntty]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive

[quickthrower2]

I had an evil idea to create a key/value storage using HN dead comments.

[follower]

Definitely would make an interesting learning exercise--I learned way more about SMTP/POP protocols* than I did before when I implemented demonstration SMTP/POP servers for my libgmail library before Gmail offered alternate means of access.

These days there's even the luxury of IMAP. :D

[*] About the only thing I remember now is the `HELO` and `EHLO` protocol start messages. :)

[derivagral]

Did this as a college project with a friend, was pretty fun.

Nowadays stuff like Dropbox is much more convenient and reliable.