Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage?

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Posted by simoniker on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:23PM from the the-g-man-cometh dept.

tstoneman writes "Wow, according to the New York Times (free reg. req.), looks like Google is really trying to push the envelope by offering 1 GB free storage for e-mail users via a service called Gmail, still in the testing phase, so that users never need to change their e-mail address. In addition, they want to offer their searching capabilities so that users can search through their entire set of e-mail, I guess forever. CNET News also has more details." Update: 04/01 02:38 GMT by S : The Google site now has an official press release, naturally dated April 1st.

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Wahooo (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:23PM (#8732117)

I will sign up for 1000 accounts and get a free terabyte storage system.

Gmail? (Score:5, Funny)

by beakerMeep ( 716990 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:24PM (#8732128)

Why not Moogle?

Finally (Score:1, Funny)

by HappyCitizen ( 742844 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:26PM (#8732155) Homepage Journal

I wasn't quite sure how to test my new internet connection. Now, I can see if my Pigeon Subscriber Line can really trasnfer a gig of spam in an hour.

Re:Google vs. spammers (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:28PM (#8732175)

Almost a week's worth

PERFERCT! (Score:4, Funny)

by brain_not_ticking ( 722737 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:29PM (#8732199)

Now I can archive all of those viagra offers and search through them to find the best deal! YAY!!

Wait...froogle already lets me do that

Obligatory BG/Simpsons post (Score:2, Funny)

by y2imm ( 700704 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:31PM (#8732222)

1GB? Why I remember when 640K was enough for any man. It was 19diggity-2. We had to call it diggity, cuz the Kaiser had stolen our word for twnety. Now then......

Re:Google vs. spammers (Score:5, Funny)

by eric_ste ( 446052 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:32PM (#8732248)

Trained pigeons can do wonders... even against spam. Considering the amount of spam reaching relays, I'm thinking about buying stock from the company that breed google's pigeons.

Weighing it in.... (Score:2, Funny)

by jaylee7877 ( 665673 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:32PM (#8732250) Homepage

Pros:
Google speed
Runs Linux!
1gb free storage for all your old mails

Cons: Your buddies can do a simple:
http://www.google.com/search?q=john+smith+love+let ters [google.com]
to pull up all your old mushy emails to your ex-girlfriend :)

I killed your bunny and put it's head on a pike (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:36PM (#8732307)

(\(\ (^.^) | | | -----

Re:Gmail? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:37PM (#8732315)

You've got mail, kupo!

Name for service (Score:5, Funny)

by I don't want to spen ( 638810 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:39PM (#8732330) Journal

Shouldn't they call this Gig-gle?

Re:Wahooo (Score:5, Funny)

by Penguinshit ( 591885 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:39PM (#8732337) Homepage Journal

In a corner office on Java Drive in Sunnyvale, CA, Dan Warmenhoven's head just exploded...

1 GB (Score:5, Funny)

by circletimessquare ( 444983 ) writes: <(circletimessquare) (at) (gmail.com)> on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:40PM (#8732349) Homepage Journal

1 GB ought to be good enough for anybody

Re:What day is it launching on? (Score:5, Funny)

by BubbaFett ( 47115 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:40PM (#8732354)

Uh, yeah, the New York Times is printing a hoax. Right.

Re:Gmail? (Score:5, Funny)

by Professor_Quail ( 610443 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:42PM (#8732372) Homepage

great googley-moogley!

Look into my eyes (Score:2, Funny)

by Un pobre guey ( 593801 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:43PM (#8732384) Homepage

[Spoken while making hypnotist hand gestures with a Bela Lugosi-like glare]

You are going deeper, and deeper to sleep. Way down. With every breath that you take, deeper... deeper to sleep. You are asleep, way down, way, way down.
You will set up a GMail account.
You will use it for all your email.
You will point all your current email accounts to it, and have them copy all their traffic to it.
When we give you the opportunity, you will also upload all of your personal files for long term storage. All documents, archives, images, videos, spreadsheets, code, presentations, everything.
You will encourage all of your friends and relatives to do likewise.
You will zealously promote this as a Good Thing. Secure. Safe. Reliable. Trustworthy. Good.
When I snap my fingers, you will immediately go out and do all of these things. You will feel great happiness and satisfaction. If you are male, you will have erections during about 80% of your waking hours for the next 12 months, as long as you are carrying out these tasks. If you are female, the sight of anyone you like or feel even slightly attracted to will give you a rush and make you wet, also during the next 12 months only as long as you carry out these tasks. People you like a lot will make you gush like a fountain. You will need to stock up on panty liners.

[Snaps fingers, and you wake up]

Re:Google is gettting ready, but for what? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:57PM (#8732545)

I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but this is definitely an April first prank. Just look a the title: "'Heck yeah!' say Google founders." Hoax-o-rama.

And, come on, doesn't "GMail" sound a bit too much like "She-Male"?

Re:woah (Score:3, Funny)

by JPriest ( 547211 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @09:58PM (#8732554) Homepage

Google does not use many HDD's, the storage will be on RAM drives, reboots will be performed every night at 2 am to free up space.

Spam (Score:2, Funny)

by Emperor_Alikar ( 638107 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:08PM (#8732650)

So not only will Google put Spam in my legit mail, my Spam will have Spam? Odd.

Re:I dunno (Score:4, Funny)

by 1029 ( 571223 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:15PM (#8732716) Homepage Journal

"Well Mr. Jones, it seems as though you're awfully interested in increasing your penis size for some pre-teen lolitas.. What do you have to say for yourself?"

Guilty as charged? I do love them pre-teen lolitas... oh wait a minute!

Seriously though, if you are worried about email being evidence against you later down the road, DELETE IT! And if that isn't enough, what the hell are you doing sending sensitive info over non-encrypted email? I mean if it is that big of a deal, the evil gov't will just take your home email server and re-create the disks anyhow, so what is your point?

just one request (Score:5, Funny)

by dalutong ( 260603 ) writes: <djtansey@@@gmail...com> on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:22PM (#8732785)

dear google,

i love you. please listen.

please allow for pop and imap connections to your new web mail.

i love you baby, but you have to do this if you want to keep me.

sincerely,

your smiley face, :)

Slashdotted - Google Cache is here (Score:5, Funny)

by billstewart ( 78916 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:25PM (#8732824) Journal

Just in case it gets /.ed, the google cache of the article is here [google.com]....

ok, I'll go mod myself down now....

1000 GB == TB? (Score:5, Funny)

by Dalcius ( 587481 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:28PM (#8732850)

You must work for a hard drive manufacturer.

Hehe.

All I have to say is... (Score:3, Funny)

by Lord Kano ( 13027 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:32PM (#8732882) Homepage Journal

Werd!

Seriously though, I'm sure that an explosion in piracy would cause Google to require a SSN, Driver's License number, thumbprint and a blood sample to set up an account.

LK

Re:Nothing about spam control? (Score:2, Funny)

by LocoSpitz ( 175100 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:37PM (#8732919)

It specifically address spam in the third bullet point: "And it turns annoying spam e-mail messages into the equivalent of canned meat."

How Fast.... (Score:1, Funny)

by Kjuib ( 584451 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:37PM (#8732921) Homepage Journal

Would it take to fill up 1 Gig of space with spam. My Yahoo account only took 1 month to fill with spam... I know we can have a race!

Keepers of All Knowledge! (Score:2, Funny)

by TheVidiot ( 549995 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:40PM (#8732954) Homepage

I, for one, welcome our Google overlords.

Now I know where old hard drives go... (Score:2, Funny)

by AetherBurner ( 670629 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:46PM (#8733004)

Now I know where all the old 5 MB IBM full-size 5 1/4" HD's went when the 3 1/2" size came out.

Re:to my dearest, p\/\/n3dj-00 (Score:2, Funny)

by rokzy ( 687636 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:48PM (#8733023)

why on Earth would I consider being dead and having people look at my private messages "cool" ?

Re:woah (Score:5, Funny)

by glitch! ( 57276 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @10:54PM (#8733073)

...but i serisouly have no clue how that could remain profitable,...

And in unrelated news, Google has won a multi-billion dollar contract with NSA for its cooperation in setting up and maintaining an "information storage and retrieval facility" dedicated to national security and total information awareness purposes...

Shh.. (Score:3, Funny)

by dilby ( 725275 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @11:05PM (#8733162) Journal

don't tell anyone taht way hotmail and yahoo will announce increases in their storage limits ;>

Re:Wahooo (Score:5, Funny)

by arpy ( 587497 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @11:07PM (#8733179) Journal

I feel for you man - having a post that says "I am retarded" moderated at +5 insightful must hurt...

Re:Streamload does this (Score:5, Funny)

by SlimFastForYou ( 578183 ) writes: <konsoleman@@@yahoo...com> on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @11:43PM (#8733414) Journal

You mean theres a living, breathing watcher of anime who is female? My prayers are answered! Praise Allah!

Re:Wahooo (Score:2, Funny)

by gstoddart ( 321705 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @11:59PM (#8733517) Homepage

Hey, the first two lines had him off to a wonderful haiku. I was rooting for him, but that third sentence threw the whole thing off. =)

Re:Wahooo (Score:3, Funny)

by Adam9 ( 93947 ) writes: on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @11:59PM (#8733519) Journal

By A.I. you mean.. checking for the same I.P.?

You are all individuals... (Score:5, Funny)

by brlancer ( 666140 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @12:02AM (#8733536) Homepage Journal

Google: "You are all individuals."
Slashdot: "We are all individuals. Now, about a gig of email."
Google: "It's just a joke. April's Fools? It's April, you're fools."
Slashdot: "I do not think you have properly examined all the possible avenues for abuse--"
Google: "IT'S A JOKE. IT'S A FUCKING JOKE. DO YOU NOT HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR?"
Slashdot: "--where someone can use this tremendous amount of space for genera file storage in an attempt--"
Google: "Joke. Wokka wokka? Hey, look, SCO is threatening IP litigation!"
Slashdot: "--to,WHAT? Where? Quickly, man your posts..."

What I'd like to know.... (Score:3, Funny)

by telstar ( 236404 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @12:56AM (#8733735)

Do Slashdot subscribers get their April Fools content on March 31st?

Re:Streamload does this (Score:4, Funny)

by adpowers ( 153922 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @01:26AM (#8733910)

A few weeks ago I met some fellow high school girls (from my very school, no less) that watched Anime. Well, I had seen them before, but I didn't know they were Anime fans since they don't run around wearing Gundam t-shirts. Anyway, they were discussing quirks of Japanese culture and the prevalence of tentacles.

Re:Streamload does this (Score:3, Funny)

by adpowers ( 153922 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @01:28AM (#8733935)

I met some fellow high school girls

Whoa, should have previewed that more carefully. To be more clear: I met some fellow high schoolers who were girls...

Re:I killed your bunny and put it's head on a pike (Score:2, Funny)

by Felinoid ( 16872 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @01:29AM (#8733950) Homepage Journal

(\(\
('.')- Kill Anonymous Coward
(\"/)
(")(")

Back from the grave it's evil Zomby bunny.

Re:1000 GB == TB? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @01:30AM (#8733956)

How many meters are in a kilometer?
How many grams are in a kilogram?
How many bytes are in a kilobyte?

1000
1000
1024

Re:Pfffft! AOL had 40GB e-mail storage...in 1994! (Score:3, Funny)

by commodoresloat ( 172735 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @01:43AM (#8734031)

I didn't have aol very much but a lot of people I knew did and I had heard about the rampant warez trading. I remember once being at a friend's house who had AOL and I wanted to mess around with it, we joined a couple of chat rooms and stuff, and I was like, I wonder if there's a huge private chatroom called "warez"? So I typed in warez and tried to join a chat, and was in the room for all of 2 seconds before I was kicked out of the room and the computer disconnected. When my friend went to reconnect it wouldn't let him, and it cited TOS violations as the reason. He had no idea what warez meant, but he thought it was hilarious that I got him locked out of his AOL account for abusing the system within seconds by typing a single word.

Re:Wahooo (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @01:52AM (#8734085)

At least it's not +5 informative.

Google is having problems. :( (Score:4, Funny)

by stfvon007 ( 632997 ) writes: <`moc.oohay' `ta' `700ramgine'> on Thursday April 01, 2004 @03:04AM (#8734443) Journal

We seem to have slashdotted google. Im getting wierd errors whenever I try to search for anything. Check it out for yourself. http://www.google.com [google.com]

Re:1000 GB == TB? (Score:3, Funny)

by Jugalator ( 259273 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @03:15AM (#8734499) Journal

Ah, you woke up a bibibibyte guy! :-O

Re:Streamload does this (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @03:34AM (#8734581)

Well my GF is watching more anime than i do...
*sniff* she even has more cpu-power on her systems

Re:Wahooo (Score:5, Funny)

by kryonD ( 163018 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @04:33AM (#8734791) Homepage Journal

It's not a Joke....the real joke was an advertisement for a job opening in 2007 at their lunar facility. It was there at about 2330MST, now it's gone and of course googling for it is fruitless. I wish I had printed it. It was about 8 pages long and even went into how they would use Einsteins theory of relativity to combat SPAM.

Re:Gmail? (Score:3, Funny)

by MyFourthAccount ( 719363 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @04:54AM (#8734869)

Why not Moogle?

Because Gmail is more in line with their future wireless services called Gspot.

look at the Ads on the right (Score:2, Funny)

by kiddailey ( 165202 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @05:21AM (#8734935) Homepage

Forget that. What's funnier still is that they actually placed an ad for the lunar job in the adsense ads panel on the right! lol

Re:Streamload does this (Score:3, Funny)

by 0x0d0a ( 568518 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @05:43AM (#8734997) Journal

Well, I had seen them before, but I didn't know they were Anime fans since they don't run around wearing Gundam t-shirts. Anyway, they were discussing quirks of Japanese culture and the prevalence of tentacles.

And you say this posting on April 1st? :-)

Microsoft to offer 1TB (Score:2, Funny)

by frs_rbl ( 615298 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @09:30AM (#8735657) Journal

Here ;-) [upenn.edu]

Re:Exactly! (Score:2, Funny)

by Alzheimers ( 467217 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @10:38AM (#8736284)

Me, 20 years ago:
"Shit, if this HD floppy can really put 1.44 MB of info on a single disk, storage space won't mean shit in 6-9 months."

Me, 10 years ago:
"Shit, if this Zip disk can really put 100MB of info on a single disk, storage space won't mean shit in 6-9 months."

Me, 5 years ago:
"Shit, if this CD-RW can really put 650MB of info on a single disk, storage space won't mean shit in 6-9 months."

Me, 1 year ago:
"Shit, if this DVD-RW can really put 4.9GB of info on a single disk, storage space won't mean shit in 6-9 months."

Re:I killed your bunny and put it's head on a pike (Score:2, Funny)

by BollocksToThis ( 595411 ) writes: on Thursday April 01, 2004 @06:08PM (#8741724) Journal

Damn you!

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Wahooo (Score:5, Funny)

Gmail? (Score:5, Funny)

Finally (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Google vs. spammers (Score:4, Funny)

PERFERCT! (Score:4, Funny)

Obligatory BG/Simpsons post (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Google vs. spammers (Score:5, Funny)

Weighing it in.... (Score:2, Funny)

I killed your bunny and put it's head on a pike (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Gmail? (Score:5, Funny)

Name for service (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Wahooo (Score:5, Funny)

1 GB (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What day is it launching on? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Gmail? (Score:5, Funny)

Look into my eyes (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Google is gettting ready, but for what? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:woah (Score:3, Funny)

Spam (Score:2, Funny)

Re:I dunno (Score:4, Funny)

just one request (Score:5, Funny)

Slashdotted - Google Cache is here (Score:5, Funny)

1000 GB == TB? (Score:5, Funny)

All I have to say is... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Nothing about spam control? (Score:2, Funny)

How Fast.... (Score:1, Funny)

Keepers of All Knowledge! (Score:2, Funny)

Now I know where old hard drives go... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:to my dearest, p\/\/n3dj-00 (Score:2, Funny)

Re:woah (Score:5, Funny)

Shh.. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Wahooo (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Streamload does this (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Wahooo (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Wahooo (Score:3, Funny)

You are all individuals... (Score:5, Funny)

What I'd like to know.... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Streamload does this (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Streamload does this (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I killed your bunny and put it's head on a pike (Score:2, Funny)

Re:1000 GB == TB? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Pfffft! AOL had 40GB e-mail storage...in 1994! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Wahooo (Score:1, Funny)

Google is having problems. :( (Score:4, Funny)

Re:1000 GB == TB? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Streamload does this (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Wahooo (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Gmail? (Score:3, Funny)

look at the Ads on the right (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Streamload does this (Score:3, Funny)

Microsoft to offer 1TB (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Exactly! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:I killed your bunny and put it's head on a pike (Score:2, Funny)

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