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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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 Posted - 01 April 2005 : 14:04:52
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You heard it guys and gals! Google is celebrating it's 1 year birthday and is increasing your GMail sizes to 2 GB!!!!
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about_whatsnew.html
The increase is moving up incrementally. They seem to be adding a MB every few minutes until it reaches 2 GB! Check your GMail account and see how much you have.
Now I guess you're all wondering, if this an april fool's joke or not. Well, guess we will find out sooner or later!  |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
12217 Posts |
Posted - 01 April 2005 : 14:49:12
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| I saw that google prank before Podge. That looks like last years prank. |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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ruirib
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Portugal
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Jezmeister
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1141 Posts |
Posted - 01 April 2005 : 21:20:17
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| cos people only want bigger and better things whether they need it or not, you think ferrari's sell cos they're good on the motorways? |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 02 April 2005 : 00:06:11
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Don't worry. Not many people are going to use 10% of that space. So Google don't have to actually allocate that much space for everyone. But everyone will sign up with google just because of the amount of the space. Smart they are.  |
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mios
Junior Member
United Kingdom
101 Posts |
Posted - 04 April 2005 : 08:30:42
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cough.. or you could use gmail drive and backup your hard drive on it .. cough.
My account is now up to 2057 MB |
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Ghostnetworks
New Member
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Posted - 04 April 2005 : 10:03:16
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Originally posted by Davio
Don't worry. Not many people are going to use 10% of that space.
Unless you get to sift through billions of zips and tars mailed over just a few days of a code competition. I may actually max out in the next two days unless I start forewarding everything with "hey ghostie late entry !!!!" in the subject line. |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 04 April 2005 : 13:21:42
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I have close to 10,000 messeages saved from over the last two or so years (not including spam) and it's only taking up around 600 mb or so on my hard drive. Lots of these include zips, etc. how big are these zip files? Zipped up text is rather small, unless you are sending 10 mb videos all over, I don't see how you could be pressed for space.
Either way, they don't plan on stopping with 2 GB, it's still going up gradually. According to marcelgoertz:
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2.386 bytes per min
143.160 bytes per hour
3.435.840 bytes per day (3.4 Mb a day)
1.254.081.600 bytes per year (1.2 gigabytes per year!)
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taropatch
Average Member
USA
741 Posts |
Posted - 04 April 2005 : 14:53:50
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| Does Gmail still require an invite? |
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MarkJH
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United Kingdom
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Hamlin
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 April 2005 : 17:40:54
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Originally posted by taropatch
Does Gmail still require an invite?
As MarkJH said yes. But everyone seems to get 50 invites now so if you need one just ask! |
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Ghostnetworks
New Member
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Posted - 04 April 2005 : 20:37:11
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Originally posted by Hamlin
As MarkJH said yes. But everyone seems to get 50 invites now so if you need one just ask!
Or create 50 aliases for yourself 
My problem is that I didn't want any compiled DLLs, EXEs and such sent. Plus I don't think Gmail allows those kinds of files to be stored, even in ZIP form. So all of the mail I got were source files and images ( the images were the big problem, since a lot of them were PNGs done in GIMP ). On average, each ZIP is about 5 - 10 Mb.
Someone even sent me an ISO!!!
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taropatch
Average Member
USA
741 Posts |
Posted - 04 April 2005 : 21:57:18
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| Yes, if somebody has an invite - can you please email me? I've been using hotmail for so long that I am reluctant to make a switch. I like googles space and search features though. Thanks. |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
12217 Posts |
Posted - 05 April 2005 : 02:19:58
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| taropatch, send me an email from the forum so i can get your email address to send it to you. |
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