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Re:Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account by geoduck14 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:30PM (#25953935)
I had a Hotmail account before Gmail was a thing.
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Re:Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account by cocoa19 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:47PM (#25954054)
Maybe Gmail was not the first free email, but was definitely the first massively adopted free email with a very high storage capacity.

At Gmail's launch, Hotmail was offering only 2MB of free space, while Gmail was offering 1GB. At the time, that was a game changer, and how they captured a good chunk of the market.

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Re:Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account by webmaven on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:55PM (#25954123)
> At Gmail's launch, Hotmail was offering only 2MB of free space, while Gmail was offering 1GB. At the time, that was a game changer, and how they captured a good chunk of the market.

The 1GB storage was so ridiculously large, that many assumed it was an April Fool's joke (also because GMail was launched on April 1st).

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