Yahoo! Mail goes to infinity and beyond - Yodel Anecdotal

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March 27th, 2007 at 5:01 pm by John Kremer, Yahoo! Mail
In Trends & News, Cool Stuff

All you can eat LiamAs Yahoo! Mail approaches its 10-year anniversary, I’m the lucky one who gets to announce that we will begin offering everyone unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. To mark the occasion, I checked in with David Nakayama, our group vice president of engineering, for some perspective on this milestone. In case that name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the developer of RocketMail, one of the world’s first webmail products, which Yahoo! acquired and relaunched as Yahoo! Mail in 1997."

I've had a Yahoo account since before they were Yahoo, they were Geocities. 12 years. I remember being stoked that I had 6MB of storage for email. And didn't really need to delete it. And then came SPAM ....