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GMail turns 9, started the growing 1GB Inbox

In April 2004, Google launched GMail as invite-only and introduced one of the biggest (if not the biggest) Inbox in all of the free email world. The default storage size of the inbox was 1GB and increases algorithmically everyday.

Here’s an infographic of the Evolution of GMail, outlining the development of one of Google’s most widely used services. With 1GB right out of the inbox, it was among the biggest with other existing services only giving 50MB to 250MB back then.

Before GMail, most people were either using Yahoo!, HotMail and other similar services. GMail practically stole the limelight in free email and is now among the top 3 email services in the world.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

16 Responses

  1. Avatar for el toro bumingo el toro bumingo says:

    I love Gmail. It works fine with Thunderbird. I hope the Yahoo! free email would one day have the option to be downloaded by Thunderbird.

    Thanks Google for giving us Gmail :)

  2. Avatar for Mica Mica says:

    I felt like I was part of the elite just by having a gmail account before. Haha good times

  3. Avatar for Dazed_32 Dazed_32 says:

    I still remember how I was “wowed” by that 1 Gb mail storage capacity. :-)

  4. Avatar for Albert Israel Albert Israel says:

    Kung nalalabuan kayo, check nyo yung same infographic na naka-publish sa Mashable.com.

  5. Avatar for Michael Michael says:

    One thing I love with Gmail. Once you have the account. You get almost Google services. Like Blogging comes to handy and Youtube account as well. You can do much thing aside sending or receive emails.

  6. Avatar for Slaters gonna slate Slaters gonna slate says:

    Google mismo gumawa ng infographic na yan. Mga haters!

  7. Avatar for rommel rommel says:

    tsk tsk…

    http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/gmail-9-years-and-counting.html

    I don’t even see a link or attribution to the source…

    • Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

      It’s because Google PR sent us this email and infographic just moments ago. I don’t think it needs any attribution back to our Inbox.

  8. Avatar for council council says:

    To assist those who seem to have difficulty in reading – here are some of the other sites hosting the same image:

    http://visual.ly/evolution-gmail?utm_source=visually_embed

    http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18k8e8osys6j6png/original.png

    http://resources.news.com.au/files/2013/04/11/1226618/068894-gmail.jpg

  9. Avatar for koolpinoy koolpinoy says:

    kahit izoom mo na nga yung image di pa rin mabasa… lumuha pa tuloy mata ko pucha! LOL

    • Avatar for infoseeker infoseeker says:

      akala ko ako lang nagtry wahahaha
      hindi ngam abasa sa link ni sir abe

      @slate – thanks for the link

    • Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

      Sorry, when the PR rep of Google emailed us this infographic, it was unreadable either.

  10. Avatar for tipler tipler says:

    ganda ng ginawa mong infographic

    • Avatar for Jay Jay says:

      Hahaha, the sarcasm in this comment is what I see. I can’t even read the text in the infographic.

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