In 2004, 9 years later the idea of 1GB of email was though of as insane
>Advanced search capabilities eventually led to considerations for providing a generous amount of storage space, which in turn opened up the possibility of allowing users to keep their emails forever, rather than having to delete them to stay under a storage limit. After considering alternatives such as 100 MB, the company finally settled upon 1 GB of space, compared to the 2 to 4 MB that was the standard at the time.
So yea, no surprise your host kicked you.
*I realize this is space versus bandwidth, but they do correlate. Your ISP at that time may have only had T1 connectivity
For sure, I definitely recall how space constrained things felt back then. Still, five megabytes of traffic per day doesn’t feel like much of an allowance, even back then. I guess it was really just intended for text-only personal pages. I wonder what kind of hardware their web server was hosted on…
I bet you’re definitely right about my ISP being on a T1. What was bandwidth on those, 1.5 Mbps? I don’t blame them for kicking me off either.
The first video I remember watching on the internet was someone pouring liquid oxygen on a grill and the melt down from it. I'm pretty sure that was 96ish era and would have had to have been a pretty huge file for the time. Was on a 64k line and not dial up.
150MB in 95 was a huge amount.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Internal_deve...
In 2004, 9 years later the idea of 1GB of email was though of as insane
>Advanced search capabilities eventually led to considerations for providing a generous amount of storage space, which in turn opened up the possibility of allowing users to keep their emails forever, rather than having to delete them to stay under a storage limit. After considering alternatives such as 100 MB, the company finally settled upon 1 GB of space, compared to the 2 to 4 MB that was the standard at the time.
So yea, no surprise your host kicked you.
*I realize this is space versus bandwidth, but they do correlate. Your ISP at that time may have only had T1 connectivity