It was ad free which was amazing for a social media site at that time. No banners, no pop ups, just content.
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wjrii@kbin.social 9 months agoGmail was also both "federated" and an insanely good product compared to its contemporaries. G+ had a couple of interesting innovations, but it wasn't all that special and invite-only on a closed ecosystem is very iffy.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 9 months ago
GreenMario@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Gmail was literally the best. 1GB space at launch when you’d get a dozen MB in Hotmail and others, slick fast UI in a browser.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And you got more space the longer you had the account! Then everyone got the same no matter what. I was sad to loose all that free space.
supercheesecake@aussie.zone 9 months ago
“Never delete an email”. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
wjrii@kbin.social 9 months ago
IIRC, that was rolled out as a surprise after a few years. People were just like, "WTF, my capacity is getting bigger?". For a while there, Goggle could do wrong from a marketing standpoint. That, uhh, changed.
dan@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Hotmail was 2mb.