# Why Gmail?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-gmail/114042>\
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**Created:** [June 24, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-gmail/114042 "2004-06-24T03:34:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![hsadan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@hsadan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hsadan)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-gmail/114042/1 "2004-06-24T03:34:58Z")

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I’m curious to know…why would people need 1000MB worth of email space? 100MB from yahoo is a lot, isn’t 1000 overdoing it? what kind of emails do you receive, eh? :bad:  
of course there’s always the reason of “why not?”, I mean, since it’s free, why not just go for it.  
I think google should instead come up with an online storage system. 1GB of online space. for free. And they wouldn’t have to compete with other mail providers (well it’s a good thing they pushed yahoo to 100MB and possibly hotmail to 25MB)  
so…what would you use 1000MB of email storage for? 🙂  
[SIZE=1]i know it’s a little ironic to be posting this after i have requested for one, but i’m just curious to know what everyone is gonna use their gmail for :P[/SIZE]