Yahoo Mail Goes Infinite

[Scarecrow Man]

Now this--this is just silly. I remember working on a Web e-mail review years ago in which the fact that Yahoo Mail gave you a generous 4MB of storage gave it an edge over Hotmail's Scrooge-like 2MB. Then in April 2004, Google launched Gmail, with a 1GB capacity that seemed so absurd that even seasoned industry experts (er, like me) thought it might be an April Fool's Day Joke.

Eventually, after several baby steps, Yahoo matched Google MB for MB. Then Google introduced a weird, weirdly compelling system that lets you watch your Gmail allowance grow moment by moment. (At the moment, I have 2833.40496GB--waitaminnit, now it's 2833.40454GB.)

And today? Yahoo has announced that Yahoo Mail's new limit is...well, it has no limit. You get infinite space for your e-mail. Let me repeat: infinite space. As in you can store all your e-mail. Even if you have an unlimited amount of it

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He goes on to say:

At any given point in time, then, there must be a number--it may be measured in Yottabytes, which I just learned about--that describes the total theoretical capacity of Yahoo Mail.

Yottabyte

:lol:

[andsome]

Some time ago when my son went on a very long holiday abroad, he asked me to install Yahoo Messenger so that we could keep in touch easier. It was an absolute pain in the ass, extremely intrusive and a thorough nuisance. It took a lot of finally getting rid of, and a reference to it stayed in Add/Remove programs until my next reinstall of Windows. I swore then, NEVER to allow anything Yahoo anywhere near to my computer again. :( :( :(

[-pops-]

Just checked one of my Yahoo email accounts and I'm using 0% of 1GB.

1GB is far from being a Yottabyte but it is nearly April the 1st.