I remember that Gmail was released on April 1st (on purpose), and many people thought it was a joke because it came with 1GB of storage, while places like Yahoo had like 20MB.
It technically had a limit, but I remember thinking of it as unlimited because the amount of storage available counted up at a faster rate than I was saving emails.
Maybe you're right. It's been a while. Either way, the philosophy was always to make money off the data somehow even if we didn't know how at the time.
Correct. 1GB.
“And counting”, famously! I remember watching that counter crawl up and up in disbelief, when Hotmail and local alternatives were offering at most 10MB on their free plans.