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Launching GMail on April 1st was funny. Nobody believed that 1GB of free email storage was real, back then ~10MB was the norm.
by ProblemFactory 6y ago
Launching GMail on April 1st was funny.
Nobody believed that 1GB of free email storage was real, back then ~10MB was the norm.
- desert_boi 6y agoNow we've got more storage than we'll ever need. > On a larger scale, he says that the world's data centers in 2010 accounted for 130 million tons of CO2e, or a quarter of a percent of the world's global total. Berners-Lee projected that the world's data centers will produce 250 to 340 million tons CO2e by 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/25/how-bad-is-email-for-the-environment/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/25...
- __s 6y agoSimilar good "not really fooling you": https://github.blog/2010-04-01-announcing-svn-support https://github.blog/2010-04-01-announcing-svn-support
- catalogia 6y agoSure it fooled people, it fooled me, but was it really funny? I mean, did you laugh? I was surprised (pleasantly even), but it's not like it made me giggle.