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Also to give more context: Back in the late 90s I remember I had a linuxmail.org web-mail account. It featured a whooping 4MB of space. 4MB!

That's why when Google released GMail with 1GB of storage in 2004 ( https://slashdot.org/story/04/04/01/0038200/googles-gmail-to... ) it really blew everybody's mind.

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In fact 1GB was so mind-blowing that people thought it was an April fools joke.

I’ll just add that it wasn’t a technological limitation - providers were simply profiting by selling every additional MB at hefty prices. When GMail appeared, it broke their business model... but there are still providers selling ridiculously low amounts of space for a lot of money, usually to people who don’t really know anything about the internet.

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