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April 1, 2005 at 2:07 pm #17677
Jeff Hester
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As a birthday gift, Gmail has added even more once again to their already incredible email service and no it’s not an April Fool’s Joke since I verified by going into my email. All users inbox will soon have 2GB storage and now the Rich Text Editing format has been added to when composing your email. As for the 2GB storage I don’t know when it’ll be added or if already has since I have no idea how to check how much space I have in my inbox. Anybody know?News Source:
ABC NewsActual Gmail Info:
About GmailApril 1, 2005 at 3:56 pm #118118Arsenal
ParticipantI only have 1398 MB of storage.
Heh, ONLYApril 1, 2005 at 4:39 pm #118106shifter
ParticipantIf you look on Gmails home page, they have a running counter showing the Gmail accounts growing over the day:
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This relates directly to your account’s limit:
[attach=center]184[/attach]But will they reach Infinity +1? 😉
April 2, 2005 at 3:32 pm #118112DrBroccoli
Participantwell, I guess there not stopping at 2 gb, right now the counter is at 2050 mb, how high are they going. This can’t be an april fools joke, april fools is over.
April 2, 2005 at 5:18 pm #118109AwesomeSauce
ParticipantOh wow. This is pretty cool. I also like the counter they have on the login page.
2050 megabytes for me! 🙂
April 2, 2005 at 6:18 pm #118107shifter
ParticipantThey really are going for infinity+1! The counter’s slowed down quite a bit, but I heard that Gmail is going to keep adding MB’s daily, so it’ll keep growing and growing. How cool is that?
April 2, 2005 at 8:07 pm #118113DrBroccoli
ParticipantBut they will eventually run out of storage, wont they? There going to have to get more servers if they go for infinity+1, I mean as they give more storage, and more people are invited…
April 2, 2005 at 10:24 pm #118111seb_thib_55
MemberYou are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 2051 MB.
April 2, 2005 at 10:46 pm #118114DrBroccoli
Participantsame here, Although I now have 2GB+ I still never save anything
April 3, 2005 at 12:18 am #118110AwesomeSauce
ParticipantIt makes me wonder, how the heck can Google do this? How can they constantly give storage away for free like that? Where do they get the money?
April 3, 2005 at 1:55 am #118116MrEggsalad
ParticipantI like to just watch the number on the counter go up and up….. I just can’t beleive they can do this! And people are still getting invites! It almost seems like it will never end, since it keeps going up and up. I also think they are going for infinity +1.
April 3, 2005 at 3:11 am #118108Tigerblade
Participantalthough they dont really need to have all that space necessarily… considering the average person isn’t gonna use anything near that much space. as long as they have enough to cover whatever is actually in use, they dont have to worry about actually having an infinite amount of space.
April 3, 2005 at 4:38 am #118105detn8r
ParticipantMakes me think how banks work. A bank can hold a trillion dollars, but only have 500 million in it’s vaults. People trust that because their statements say they have ten thousand, that it’s there. Just like email, just because Gmail’s statement says that you have 2+ GB of space really mean it’s there in reality?
April 3, 2005 at 3:33 pm #118115DrBroccoli
ParticipantExactly, like I only use 0%, because I never archive anything. So the extra 2gb+ that I dont use is probably being used by somone who used alot of space, then if I ever use more I can “take” some from someone else. I think thats how it might work. They may not have enough to give everyone that much, but they count on people like me who use no space at all, to “share” with others.
April 3, 2005 at 3:43 pm #118117MrEggsalad
ParticipantI agree with ShadowDog because I know there are people who use 2+ GB for e-mail and there are others who use next to nothing. I use next to nothing. This is probably how Google can do this, but if everyone started to use 2+ GB then I think they would have a problem.
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