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by big85 28 days 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.

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Bender 28 days ago
My favorite was GMail Tap [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvILQlLZsFU

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chistev 28 days ago
Wow, 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.

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big85 27 days ago
According 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.

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