Whats your limit anyway ?
Yahoo has announced that Yahoo Mail users will get limitless storage space !!!
Its almost 10 years since I created my yahoo account. I remember creating it in my college. And in those days, creating an email account was like the most toughest thing on earth and you needed support from people to help you create it. And if you were the unlucky one who was late to join the party and didnt have an email account, you were looked upon as inferior souls who were missing the most important thing in life !!!
Well, in a way now email has become ubiquitous and is everybody's second identity [ or should I say first ? ]. Its really so hard to imagine a world without email. But hey, emails have been around, atleast in my limited world, for only about 10 to 12 years !!! Technology can certainly paint this world in a completely new color :-)
The interesting part of the announcement was in the details given there about how the industry has started creating goods that can just store more and more data. I liked the way he has depicted the growth in stages for the past 10 years. Imagine storing a 100 hours of video, thats like atleast 35 Hindi movies, in a small iPod that can fit into your pocket. Compare this with the delimma we had in college when we had to store 2 pdf files in our 1.44 MB floppy !!! Will one floppy be sufficient to hold them ? or should I just borrow another floppy from my friend ?
Moore's Law rocks !!! If anyone had any doubts in the value of compounding returns, they just have to take a mathematical look at how the storage space on a single device has grown from 1.44 MB to 80GB in a span of 10 years. Infact, on taking a more closer look we have even beaten the 18 month cycle and reduced it to 10 months !!!
Strangely enough, even with these huge jumps in memory storage capacities, I still find instances where I end up having the same delimma of less storage space I had in college. Will one memory stick of 1GB be sufficient to store these 2 movies ? or should I just borrow another 1GB stick from my friend ?
Parkinson's Law rocks too :-) Wonder how soon/long it will take for Parkinson's Law to dawn on Yahoo Mail's unlimited storage space. Is there anything bigger than "limitless" ...
Its almost 10 years since I created my yahoo account. I remember creating it in my college. And in those days, creating an email account was like the most toughest thing on earth and you needed support from people to help you create it. And if you were the unlucky one who was late to join the party and didnt have an email account, you were looked upon as inferior souls who were missing the most important thing in life !!!
Well, in a way now email has become ubiquitous and is everybody's second identity [ or should I say first ? ]. Its really so hard to imagine a world without email. But hey, emails have been around, atleast in my limited world, for only about 10 to 12 years !!! Technology can certainly paint this world in a completely new color :-)
The interesting part of the announcement was in the details given there about how the industry has started creating goods that can just store more and more data. I liked the way he has depicted the growth in stages for the past 10 years. Imagine storing a 100 hours of video, thats like atleast 35 Hindi movies, in a small iPod that can fit into your pocket. Compare this with the delimma we had in college when we had to store 2 pdf files in our 1.44 MB floppy !!! Will one floppy be sufficient to hold them ? or should I just borrow another floppy from my friend ?
Moore's Law rocks !!! If anyone had any doubts in the value of compounding returns, they just have to take a mathematical look at how the storage space on a single device has grown from 1.44 MB to 80GB in a span of 10 years. Infact, on taking a more closer look we have even beaten the 18 month cycle and reduced it to 10 months !!!
Strangely enough, even with these huge jumps in memory storage capacities, I still find instances where I end up having the same delimma of less storage space I had in college. Will one memory stick of 1GB be sufficient to store these 2 movies ? or should I just borrow another 1GB stick from my friend ?
Parkinson's Law rocks too :-) Wonder how soon/long it will take for Parkinson's Law to dawn on Yahoo Mail's unlimited storage space. Is there anything bigger than "limitless" ...
i think more space in e-mails only creates a larger mess! guess am quite tech challenged that wez! can never figure out wot to do with all d space... :D
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