In 2005, on Gmail’s one-year anniversary, Gmail’s free storage space was doubled to 2 GB. Its competitors struggled to keep up, but even they added much more storage space. It’s no wonder that Gmail became so popular. Yes, Gmail launched with five hundred times as much free storage as Microsoft’s email service. That put its competitors to shame-the free version of Microsoft Hotmail offered a tiny 2 MB at the time. Google’s email service delivered a whopping 1 GB of free email storage. Gmail was earth-shattering when it was launched back in 2004. You had to delete them to free up space so that you could get more emails. Before that, people generally deleted their emails regularly. Whether or not you use Gmail, it’s important to understand that the idea of never deleting emails was widely popularized by Gmail.
Gmail Promised Endless Storage but Hasn’t Kept up
