Unlimited storage for Yahoo Mail confirmed
By Eric Auchard, Reuters and Chris Green, IT PRO,
It's a far cry from when giving away 2MB of data was considered a big deal, said David Nakayama, Yahoo's group vice president of engineering and developer of the RocketMail webmail service, which Yahoo acquired and relaunched as Yahoo Mail in 1997.
In a posting to Yahoo's corporate blog, he said capacity when Yahoo Mail started was 200GB for the entire combined user base.
"I remember getting in a room to plan our RocketMail launch over a decade ago and worrying that our original plan of a 2MB quota wasn't enough, and that we needed to be radical and double the storage to 4MB per account!" he wrote.
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