Gmail now has 1 billion monthly users

Yay, I am one in a billion. (Would that be an English or American billion?)

It also seems I have been a user for almost 12 years.... OK, just checked: "...thanks for opening a Gmail account..." 28/02/2005.
 
Gmail account for personal use: check. For spam: check. For my domains: check. For work: check. For my games: check.
 
Users or accounts because Im a single user with 4 accounts?

Pretty sure many myBB clones have multiple accounts as well.

So technically I'd say gmail has only half of its claimed user base.
 
And then of course there's the lesser known "Zuma Billion". Which is actually: three million and twenty million four hundred and nineteen... listen carefully.... four hundred and twenty eleven nineteen million.
Or the price of an ice cream to the layman.
 
The real scary part of it is that GMAIL always ****ing works.

Can you imagine the infrastructure they must have... Absolutely incredible
 
1 000 000 000 X 15 GB Storage - minimum

**** ME....

I can imagine this is all sitting on tapes with people running to swap them as people log on :p
 
requiem said:
Depends on the compression algorithm you are using... :)
Click to expand...

Translation: You have no clue either. :D

Actually I am sure some large corporation made a research team spend weeks determining what the packing density of punch cards should be in order to balance physical store room space vs the risk of damage to the cards. (And then promptly chucked out all the results and accepted the opinion of the filing clerk who had to do the actual storing)
 
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