----------------------------------- Catalyst Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:12 am GMail ----------------------------------- http://www.gmail.com free, 1 gig of storage, woo public in 3 months ----------------------------------- jonos Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:33 am ----------------------------------- looks cool, looks like ill be switching from hotmail. im glad microsoft decided to make a good emal for once!!! (im joking im joking i know what im talking about now) ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Apr 01, 2004 1:41 pm ----------------------------------- ya i hured about this. i can't bevlie that it is 1gb. they most have some crazy servers there. This is going to be free right? how can they efored to have 1gb per person? i know if i had an acount there i whould use it to the max... ----------------------------------- Raugrist Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:51 pm ----------------------------------- i know if i had an acount there i whould use it to the max... Wha? How can you fill up a gigabyte of space with email? Or do you plan on emailing yourself games and applications? :P Though it is pretty weird. I can't understand how google plans on allowing people to have a full gigabyte of space for free. There has to be a catch. Maybe the first few people will get the gig and then anybody who gets close to using up that much space will get their accounts deleted "accidently." Then again, that doesn't seem like a very Google.com thing to do. ----------------------------------- Catalyst Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:13 pm ----------------------------------- apprently the space will only cost them 2$ a gig so they can easily make it up with ads ----------------------------------- Delos Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:07 pm ----------------------------------- Can't wait... ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:20 pm ----------------------------------- Wha? How can you fill up a gigabyte of space with email? A gig of free online space would be awesome 8) Text emails will take up a tiny fraction of the space, but you could keep your larger files there such as images and even backups of your files :lol: Would be soo much easier to just email myself my harddrive and format :lol: ----------------------------------- Delos Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:22 pm ----------------------------------- You must have one helluva small harddrive! ----------------------------------- Paul Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:46 pm ----------------------------------- apprently the space will only cost them 2$ a gig so they can easily make it up with ads I don't understand this though, is that like similar to HD space? cause I'd buy some gigs for $2 per gig lol... ----------------------------------- Amailer Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:14 pm ----------------------------------- just think this is april fools ;D ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:20 pm ----------------------------------- You must have one helluva small harddrive! I do :? Besides - vast majoring of space is taken up by apps and games installed... Amailer - you suck :lol: ----------------------------------- naoki Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:27 pm ----------------------------------- If Google does this as an April Fool's prank, then they're going to lose a lot of surfers. And losing surfers means the companies who pay to advertise on Google are going to stop. Which means Google makes no money and dies ----------------------------------- the_short1 Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:53 pm ----------------------------------- hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah... soo funnyy... i think it was a joke... could be wrong tho...... this one news channel i was watching shows that they was a new bylaw for timmins ontario that if u mentioned Shania twain u would be fined 5$.... and there was even testimonials and interviews saing... yea... ppl overuse her name... and all this and that... at the end:" this bylaw was passed today... April 1st" april fools day.... i though it was real at first... funny stuff... ----------------------------------- shorthair Sun Apr 04, 2004 4:37 pm ----------------------------------- 2$ a gig is expensive i bought a 120 GIG HDD for 79.99 at future shop , now thats retail price ( so im paying more) and that equals out to be 66cents a GIG , but then again this is just a 7200 spin drive , but 2$ a gig sounds expensive ----------------------------------- Maverick Sun Apr 04, 2004 4:50 pm ----------------------------------- i doubt its gonna happen. ----------------------------------- Catalyst Sun Apr 04, 2004 8:02 pm ----------------------------------- the 2$ probably also covers a server to put it (and others) in and maintenance ----------------------------------- not_l33t Mon Apr 05, 2004 12:15 pm ----------------------------------- I hope the good IRC system to go with it. ----------------------------------- the_short1 Mon Apr 05, 2004 6:21 pm ----------------------------------- prob NOT.... seeing how it mite just be an april foolz joke.... 2nd.... they would just tell MSN to allow @gmail to be added to MSN messenger.