Google April First

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-01 08:29am

http://www.google.com/googlegulp/index.html

but most importently...

Gmail.com, forget Infinity +1 space... see that counter? its accurate, I got 1.3GB and counting.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-04-01 10:56am

Woot. Now I've got...uh...double the space I will never, ever use.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2005-04-01 12:27pm

So, are they gonna stop it at 2 gigs, or something?

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-04-01 12:31pm

For now, they're moving to 2, but they plan to increase more later. Now Hotmail's 250 seems kinda....

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2005-04-01 12:34pm

White Haven wrote:For now, they're moving to 2, but they plan to increase more later. Now Hotmail's 250 seems kinda....

Yahoo is moving from 250 to 2GB and up...

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2005-04-01 01:10pm

I have gmail linked to thunderbird so this space increase is useless. Nice gimmick though.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-04-01 02:10pm

9. I mean, isn't this whole invite-only thing kind of bogus?

Dude, it's like you've never even heard of viral marketing.

That FAQ page is gold.

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2005-04-01 06:28pm

The 2 gig increase isn't a joke.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-04-01 06:34pm

Aya wrote:The 2 gig increase isn't a joke.

as of now my storage space has shot up to 1659 megs. so yeah, it's legit.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2005-04-02 03:48pm

Odd, it hasn't stopped at 2 gigs, I'm currently at 2015 megs and counting...

tumbletom · Post by **tumbletom** » 2005-04-02 04:33pm

Lol i use like 2 megs of that 2 GB.......

But im all for elevendy billion gigs of space

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-04-02 04:46pm

Maybe it really IS infinity +1 and it'll keep going up?

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2005-04-03 06:09am

White Haven wrote:For now, they're moving to 2, but they plan to increase more later. Now Hotmail's 250 seems kinda....

Personally I don't really see myself ever needing more than 250Mb.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2005-04-03 12:57pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
9. I mean, isn't this whole invite-only thing kind of bogus?

Dude, it's like you've never even heard of viral marketing.
That FAQ page is gold.

Indeed.

"The short version is, our brains process data by sending electrical impulses called neurotransmitters between billions of neurons via axons running between synapses, much the way buses travel between stations, or MP3 files travel between felonious suburban teenagers."

EDIT: "Well, none of the lab rats who've been pounding this stuff for the past eight months have keeled over yet, which we find fairly reassuring."

Ah, good stuff...

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2005-04-05 04:57pm

Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlex™, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2005-04-05 05:11pm

Linux folks can always use gmailFS to get an extra two gigs of non-volatile storage.

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2005-04-05 05:40pm

It seems that every time I go to check my mail that Gmail has added more space. I'm up to 2061 MB's now...

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2005-04-05 07:23pm

observer_20000 wrote:It seems that every time I go to check my mail that Gmail has added more space. I'm up to 2061 MB's now...

It's just part of their Infinity+1 storage plan. Seriously, the storage limit is mostly just a marketing gimmick; what it really means is "more space than you can handle!". They'll just keep revising the limit upwards, realizing that hardly anybody will use that much space so they don't actually need to have that much storage.

unigolyn · Post by **unigolyn** » 2005-04-10 04:10pm

Sharp-kun wrote:Personally I don't really see myself ever needing more than 250Mb.

Err...

Bill Gates wrote:640K of memory should be enough for anybody.

I think there is (or ought to be) some universal law of computing - you'll always need more space even if you don't think you will. Look at hard drives - who can honestly say that during the era of 120MB hard drives they ever thought it possible for them to fill up a 120GB one?

Let's look at my gmail account:

You are currently using 53 MB (3%) of your 2079 MB.

I've had my Gmail account for less than a year, and I don't even use email that much. I do store a few essential files there that I can get to from any computer anywhere. I think I'll hit 250 MB in a couple of years.

If it's there, I'll use it - and since I'm 100% sure Google isn't going anywhere, I'll happily use it to store critical files I definitely want to keep in case of a system crash (password protected zips, of course).

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-04-10 04:34pm

12 over 2079 here.

BTW good idea unigolyn

Post by **Beowulf** » 2005-04-10 05:07pm

unigolyn wrote:I think there is (or ought to be) some universal law of computing - you'll always need more space even if you don't think you will. Look at hard drives - who can honestly say that during the era of 120MB hard drives they ever thought it possible for them to fill up a 120GB one?

Parkinson's Law of Data - Data expands to fill the space available for storage.