• @[email protected]
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    5011 months ago

    The main advantage of Gmail at the time was honestly that they did away with tiny mailbox sizes and attachment limits.

    • @Vash63
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      3411 months ago

      The web UI was also vastly superior to Hotmail or Yahoo

    • @[email protected]
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      1311 months ago

      Yes, it was 1GB so you never had to delete anything.

      And their slogan was “search dont sort” googles search box was very advanced at the time compared to the free alternatives

    • @Stupidmanager
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      411 months ago

      I remember the counter too. The ever growing available capacity of my mailbox that was more space than I could ever use. Just open Gmail and watch that number grow