Gather round, friends. Gather round. It’s story time.
It was April 2004. “Yeah!” by Usher was burning up the music charts. People were still reeling about the infamous wardrobe malfunction during the Super Bowl halftime show. And Google released Gmail.
Back then, a gigabyte was a heckuva lot of storage space. And Gmail offered everyone their own precious gigabyte of storage. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail—two big email players at the time—offered mere megabytes.
Thing was: Gmail was released on April 1—April Fools’ Day. As such, thanks in large part to its far-too-generous allotment of space, many people thought Gmail was a hoax. A hoax!
Fast-forward to today, and Gmail gives you 15 GB of storage. It’s . . . eh . . . a fair amount, but it’s no longer revolutionary. And now you have to share those gigabytes with Google Drive and Google Photos.
There’s a good chance that if you use Gmail as your main email service, it’s eating up the lion’s share of those 15 GB. Here are a…
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Source : fastcompany.com
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