IIRC, they launched with 1GB (which was ridiculously much for the time) and later only had “unlimited” in the sense of “continuously slowly increasing”. Until they reached 15GB and never budged from there again.
But I do remember thinking 1gb and it growing over time was worth implementing GmailFS and using a free gmail account as a “get to it anywhere” file system I could mount on Linux.
Anyone old enough to remember that Gmail launched with “unlimited” storage?
IIRC, they launched with 1GB (which was ridiculously much for the time) and later only had “unlimited” in the sense of “continuously slowly increasing”. Until they reached 15GB and never budged from there again.
The 1GB Gmail storage was initially announced on April Fool’s Day and it was quite the topic of discussion whether it was real or not.
A year or two later they upped it to 2GB and also announced this on April 1
They never did. You are thinking of photos.
But I do remember thinking 1gb and it growing over time was worth implementing GmailFS and using a free gmail account as a “get to it anywhere” file system I could mount on Linux.