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It was also the age of the average file being 20kb though. You could have provided 50mb per user and the world would have gone "woah".


I remember how amazing it was when the email accounts went from 20mb max size to something like 500mb, it blew my mind and gave rise to many services that capitalized on this huge amount of space (mostly peer-to-mail and an application that turned gmail accounts into a dropbox kind of thing).




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