in General, Tech

Happy Anniversary

A Cnet interview with a Google high muckety-muck brings some insights about Gmail to light. Appropriate, given that tomorrow is the 1 year anniversary of Gmail’s debut announcement. You might remember that just about everybody (myself included) thought it was an April Fool’s joke. One gigabyte of electronic mail storage? Poppycock! That’s what I would have been thinking were I British and a fuddy duddy. I’m in a strange mood tonight, don’t mind me…

Back on topic!

Now Google is upping the ante to 2 gig! I’m guessing this is in response to Yahoo’s recent matching of Gmail’s 1gb storage limit. Not only that, but the storage limit will steadily increase beyond the two gigabyte frontier, and the sky’s the limit! The details are a little muddled at this point, but it sure sounds interesting.

It’s amazing how just a year ago even the best webmail account rarely exceeded 10 megabytes.

And in closing, a reminder: Don’t believe anything you read online tomorrow, being April first. Every year I fall for some dumb hoax, even if only for a moment, but this year I pledge to remain skeptical!

And I’ve still got tons of Gmail invites if you’d like one.