[dragonwriter]

> Was Gmail really 10x better than Hotmail?

No.

Gmail did not suck badly enough to be merely 10× better than Hotmail.

Gmail was lightyears beyond other early free webmail services.

[jensvdh]

Hotmail had a 2MB e-mail limit. Gmail came with 2GB.

[meepmorp]

Sadly, this isn’t even snark.