• Ross@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    People forget how expensive just basic email was until Gmail was released in 2004.

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      7 months ago

      Free / included with every internet I had since 1999… when was it even moderately expensive?

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        7 months ago

        Thereby tieing you to your ISP forever unless you were willing and able to keep changing your email address.

        Never. Use. Your. ISP’s Included. Email. Service.

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          7 months ago

          My 20 year old Steam login uses a defunct ISP email from the dial up days. I changed the actual email associated with it for passwords etc. but my login is still “deranger@oldisp.com”

          But the point I was trying to make is email has always been free or included, in my experience. The fact Gmail was free was never the draw imo.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah it has always been free for me too.

        I think the major thing Gmail brought to the table was 1GB+ email storage when most free options at the time it was 1-5MB or so. I remember it being an insane increase in the available storage.