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I wouldn't really call 16.125GB "incredibly generous" to be honest.

If OP was an early adopter, remember that it's 16 GB in 2007-2008. The iPhone didn't exist yet. The top Thinkpad at the time, Lenovo W510 (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Lenovo-Thinkpad-W510-43...), had 320 GB of storage; OP had 5% of its storage for free on dropbox.

Nowadays we have new laptops with routinely 1TB of storage. Imagine 50GB of free storage with Dropbox, or any equivalent, today.

>Nowadays we have new laptops with routinely 1TB of storage

Unless you buy Macs which still start with 256GB storage.

It felt endless, especially compared to my 100MB yahoo account. I remember sitting there watching the storage counter going up and up and just grinning.

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