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Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Sandwich on April 02, 2005, 04:01:20 am: http://www.google.com/gmail/help/whatsnew.html

Sweeeeet. I love seeing MS and Yahoo playing catch-up. p
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Splinter on April 02, 2005, 04:06:44 am: im shorting out my keyboard with drool

You are currently using 77 MB (4%) of your 2017 MB.

hell yeah
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Sandwich on April 02, 2005, 04:40:01 am: When I posted it was 2011. Then 10 minutes later it was at 2032. Then I went to the kitchen to get a bite to eat, came back, and it's at 2034.

:wtf: :eek2:

EDIT: 2038
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: n00by on April 02, 2005, 06:10:46 am: Now that's a cool thing...already have 2050 o.O

*hugs Gmail account*
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Kie99 on April 02, 2005, 06:23:11 am: I think its a bit unnecessary, I mean, who's gonna need 2+GB in an e-mail account?
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Splinter on April 02, 2005, 07:20:25 am: looks back at people gawking at 10gb HDDs and saying "who's gonna need 10+GB in a hard drive?"

...
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: vyper on April 02, 2005, 07:24:16 am: *looks back at people gawking at 120GB hard drives and people saying "Who could fill that?"*

*goes to add to his 220MB free space*
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Setekh on April 02, 2005, 08:16:43 am: Cripes... yeah, I'm up to 2050 now. :eek2:
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Hippo on April 02, 2005, 06:20:52 pm: 2051... :wtf:
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: aldo_14 on April 02, 2005, 06:26:30 pm: Quote
Originally posted by kietotheworld
I think its a bit unnecessary, I mean, who's gonna need 2+GB in an e-mail account?

How else are you going to know the best prices for generic viagra, septic tanks and male enhancement products?
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Taristin on April 02, 2005, 09:39:28 pm: Quote
You are currently using 68 MB (3%) of your 2052 MB.

See? 2052. they like me more. :p
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 02, 2005, 10:08:56 pm: I'm guessing Google has a giant hamster that compresses everything. Hence the large mailbox sizes.

No wait. A genetically modified giant hamster.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: n00by on April 03, 2005, 04:52:54 am: Whatever.

I don't care as long as my mailbox keeps growing. :D

BTW: 2053;7
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Primus on April 03, 2005, 04:58:21 am: It's growing https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fgmail.google.com%2Fgmail%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&hl=en
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 03, 2005, 04:58:29 am: Quote
Originally posted by n00by
Whatever.

I don't care as long as my mailbox keeps growing. :D

BTW: 2053;7

:rolleyes:

Well, at least people aren't worried about postcount size anymore... :p
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Primus on April 03, 2005, 05:05:34 am: Really.. What do you do with 2 gig mailbox??

...I want one too. :sigh:
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: aldo_14 on April 03, 2005, 06:58:16 am: Quote
Originally posted by WMCoolmon
I'm guessing Google has a giant hamster that compresses everything. Hence the large mailbox sizes.

No wait. A genetically modified giant hamster.

i think the giant hamster provides storage space in its cheeks, actually. It's the giant chinchilla that does compression.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Hippo on April 03, 2005, 07:14:46 am: i too have 2053 as yet... are they just putting more and more hard drives into their servers or something?
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Ypoknons on April 03, 2005, 09:13:58 am: isnoop.net (http://isnoop.net/gmail/)

More gmail invites than gmail storage space in MB...
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Kie99 on April 03, 2005, 09:32:37 am: But for how long?

Yay! A Gmail invite! (http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-78c2c3ce8-84f73a8383-653f0ce97f)
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Taristin on April 03, 2005, 11:02:07 am: :lol:

Quote
You are currently using 68 MB (3%) of your 2054 MB.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Kie99 on April 03, 2005, 11:50:06 am: Primus Got the First

Another one (http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-78c2c3ce8-f6707aedfa-f83f5bd7c2)
Another Another one (http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-78c2c3ce8-0c5dc19a63-88c01a6125)
Yet another another one (http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-78c2c3ce8-70a2d6f575-665819e2ab)
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Taristin on April 03, 2005, 11:50:55 am: I have 50 invites remaining as well...

I've given up on finding people to give them to.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Kie99 on April 03, 2005, 11:55:04 am: When google de-beta gmail noone will notice :D
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Rictor on April 03, 2005, 12:02:39 pm: Why would anyone need 2gb? I mean, emails are tiny. Unless they enable the sending and recieving of large files (as in hundreds of megabytes) then I don't see the use...
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Primus on April 03, 2005, 01:26:08 pm: Thanks, Kie :)
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Grey Wolf on April 03, 2005, 02:04:24 pm: I'm not using very much at all of my account, and I haven't used any of my fifty invites yet.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Terminator on April 03, 2005, 11:31:14 pm: There was even a time when people asked each other "Why would anyone ever want to use a computer?"

Look at where we are today.

Gmail is the wave of the future. We will assim--err...anyway...yeah..
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: n00by on April 04, 2005, 10:35:51 am: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf
I'm not using very much at all of my account, and I haven't used any of my fifty invites yet.

Same here. Still got my fifty invites left and I'm currently using 2 MB of space....and I really doubt that this will change...:nod:
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Kie99 on April 04, 2005, 01:21:46 pm: Quote
You are currently using 42 MB (2%) of your 2057 MB.

I'm the favourite!
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Fineus on April 04, 2005, 01:30:07 pm: What in the heck can you put through email that would fill that kind of size?
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Taristin on April 04, 2005, 02:18:54 pm: I use it to email mp3's to my friends in florida :p
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Grey Wolf on April 04, 2005, 02:46:49 pm: There's some who use it as backup storage for their computer.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Gloriano on April 04, 2005, 02:53:39 pm: I really don't understand who needs 2gb in email account
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Taristin on April 04, 2005, 02:58:14 pm: I do. Because I do. :p

Edit:

Actually, My GMX account is a GB also...

But that one is all spam.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: MicroPsycho on April 04, 2005, 06:32:07 pm: "You are currently using 33MB (2%) of your of you 2058MB"

HAH!

I really don't have a need for that much space yet, especially with dialup...
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Kie99 on April 04, 2005, 07:21:06 pm: I find it amusing that people are trying to impress others with there storage space when everyone has the same. :D

I remember when MSN E-mail was 1Mb.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Dark RevenantX on April 04, 2005, 07:43:13 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kalfireth
What in the heck can you put through email that would fill that kind of size?

twenty copies of fs2?
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Hippo on April 04, 2005, 07:52:56 pm: notice if you logout, you can see the little changing number? seems they've averaged out when new servers are coming online, and own an obsequiously large amount of hard drives...

EDIT: about to hit 2059...
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Goober5000 on April 04, 2005, 08:07:14 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Hippo
an obsequiously large amount of hard drives...
:lol:

That's a really funny turn of phrase. :) Perhaps you meant to use a different adverb? ;)
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: mrfun on April 04, 2005, 10:54:05 pm: I am currently using 839kb out of 3000kb on my free mail account that I have had for 5 years....

What the hell are you guys putting in there? :confused: :eek2:
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Sandwich on April 04, 2005, 11:23:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mrfun
I am currently using 839kb out of 3000kb on my free mail account that I have had for 5 years....

What the hell are you guys putting in there? :confused: :eek2:

That's the storage space we have, not space that we've actually used. :p
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Mongoose on April 05, 2005, 03:31:24 pm: I'd much rather have them increase the allowed attachment size than the storage space. What use is two gigs of space when you can only send 10 MB files?
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Kie99 on April 05, 2005, 04:24:39 pm: Just out of interest what would you have increased it to?
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: n00by on April 05, 2005, 04:26:55 pm: I'd like to see it increased to 100-200 MB...so I can send large archives to friends instead of burning it on a CD....
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Sandwich on April 08, 2005, 10:43:14 am: Quote
Originally posted by kietotheworld
Just out of interest what would you have increased it to?

715Mb of course. :p What a silly question.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Nix on April 13, 2005, 10:32:08 pm: do you honestly think that gmail will reserve an exact amount of 2 GB for each user? There's gotta be some sort of pool system....
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Kie99 on April 14, 2005, 01:27:19 am: Its about 2085MB now, you can see how high its going by signing out of gmail and going to gmail.com.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Primus on April 14, 2005, 01:58:36 am: Yeah. I already posted about that. :p
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Xelion on April 15, 2005, 12:15:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by Nix
do you honestly think that gmail will reserve an exact amount of 2 GB for each user?

No

Quote
Originally posted by Nix
There's gotta be some sort of pool system....

Yep :nod:

Hmm 200x10MB emails :rolleyes:, I just don't see it happening. Maybe if they increased the attachment size there would be more use for a Gmail account.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Kamikaze on April 15, 2005, 01:19:20 am: I've received large files over gmail. Just divide them up into small rars.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Sandwich on April 18, 2005, 12:53:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by Xelion
Hmm 200x10MB emails :rolleyes:, I just don't see it happening. Maybe if they increased the attachment size there would be more use for a Gmail account.

You guys are missing the point of GMail. It's to store your emails for life - emails which can then be searched effortlessly. It's not to store unindexable multiple-span ZIP files just so you can have another way to pirate the latest movie off your friend - heck, if you're that desperate, install an FTP server on your friend's machine, make a "p1r473sRk001" user, and start downloading from your computer. That way you get resumability, and your friend doesn't have to manually upload things. Sheesh. :rolleyes:
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Xelion on April 18, 2005, 05:51:09 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
It's to store your emails for life - emails which can then be searched effortlessly.

True, but I send most of my emails to the trash after they've been read once. If I was a company it'd be different.

Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
It's not to store unindexable multiple-span ZIP files just so you can have another way to pirate the latest movie off your friend - heck, if you're that desperate, install an FTP server on your friend's machine, make a "p1r473sRk001" user, and start downloading from your computer. That way you get resumability, and your friend doesn't have to manually upload things. Sheesh. :rolleyes:

I prefer renting or buying DVDs btw, much better quaility and its 5.1 sound, I'm also on a 56k line.

I was thinking that if there is a larger attachment size for emails, there could be a mailing list for builds/mediavp/etc. I would elaborate more on this idea... :blah:
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 18, 2005, 06:36:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Xelion
I was thinking that if there is a larger attachment size for emails, there could be a mailing list for builds/mediavp/etc. I would elaborate more on this idea... :blah:

Uh, no. Unless there's someone with an upstream cap of over 100k/s, it'd be a pain in the ass to send. (It took me well over an hour to upload 3.6.6)

A mailing list that got updates from the SCP news would work, but you don't need a phat attachment size for that. And most e-mail providers can stomach a single EXE, as long as it's compressed.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Stealth on April 18, 2005, 10:55:50 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
Why would anyone need 2gb? I mean, emails are tiny. Unless they enable the sending and recieving of large files (as in hundreds of megabytes) then I don't see the use...

and who's able to go 220 miles per hour in a ferrari enzo? no one, but that doesn't stop them from making the car

it's a gimmick.
Title: GMail Turns One, Goes to Two
Post by: Night Hammer on April 18, 2005, 10:57:45 pm: god those Enzos are amazing