When Paul Buchheit launched Gmail in 2004, it didn’t just change Google, or the technology industry — though it certainly changed both. It changed the world.
Zoomers will find this impossible to believe, but in the early 2000s people were still deleting email. The habit was partly a holdover from our analog culture, but mostly due to space. When Yahoo launched Mail in 1997, one of the most popular email services in the country, users were limited to 4MB of free storage. That’s about the size of an iPhone photo.
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