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In response to "Wait, starting April 1?! I almost fell for it! -- nm" by mara

Notable non-fools-day April 1 occurrence: 2004 - Google introduces its Gmail product to the public. -- nm

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Mar 10 '09, 13:54

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I can't believe it's only been five years. wow. -- nm - the emerald city loves mandy lane Mar 10, 14:14
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- I wonder what percentage of storage they actually have, compared to what they would need if everyone had their Gmail accounts at capacity. -- nm - znufrii Mar 10, 13:58 12
  - probably about 1/100th -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 14:01 11
    - so really they weren't actually giving people 2 gigabytes of storage at the beginning, either. they were giving people the *idea* of 2 Gigs of storage -- nm - znufrii Mar 10, 14:02 10
      - which is kind of brilliant, imho. -- nm - znufrii Mar 10, 14:02 9
        
        also kind of like our financial system. :) -- nm - znufrii Mar 10, 14:03 8
        
        No, it's more stable than the financial system, because they would have enough advance warning of a surge in usage to add more space -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 14:04 7
        
        I don't know if this is confirmed or not, but I've always suspected that an email that goes to several gmail accounts is stored once and tagged as - TWuG Mar 10, 14:17 5
        
        that would be a standard implementation from a database design perspective ... -- nm - Beryllium Mar 10, 14:20 4
        
        kind of like if everyone has $1 in their bank account, the bank only keep a single $1 bill in its vault. :) -- nm - znufrii Mar 10, 14:26 3
        
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        yet on the other hand, is also partially responsible for our current situation - znufrii Mar 10, 14:40 1
        
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        good point. -- nm - znufrii Mar 10, 14:06

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