> Gmail wasn't much different from the status quo GMail was different because it offered an outlandish 1GB of mail space, when everywhere else you got 1-10MB m

> Gmail wasn't much different from the status quo GMail was different because it offered an outlandish 1GB of mail space, when everywhere else you got 1-10MB mailboxes. Since it was launched on April 1st, most people did not believe it at first. And (at the time) huge space allowed users to keep and search all old email, instead of deleting old emails being a weekly chore.