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cryptoz on April 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

> every other webmail was offering 10-500MB accounts, they came with BOOM! 5GB and growing.

At the time, I think Hotmail offered 2MB (free). Google upped the game to 1GB.

aleyan on April 24, 2012 [–]

That is correct. A few months prior to gmail announcement hotmail lowered their free offering from 5 MB or 6 MB to 2 MB.

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