Yahoo MailIn April 2004, Google launched GMail with an astounding storage limit of 1GB. The news of this large storage limit made GMail invitations such a highly sought after item that many were sold on eBay. As Yahoo Mail and Hotmail looked on in awe everyone had come to realize the ‘golden ticket’ to webmail - storage.

Soon after Google launched GMail, Yahoo increased their storage from 4MB to 100MB, then again to 250MB in late 2004, and finally matched GMail’s 1GB in 2005. Now, everyone else will look on in awe at Yahoo as they completely get rid of storage limits and simply give out unlimited storage to everyone in May.

“We are watching the trend lines of how people are using e-mail…and they are sending more photos and videos and rich media,” said John Kremer, vice president of Yahoo Mail.

It will take about a month to get all 250 million users migrated over to the new storage capacities and Yahoo has decided to leave China and Japan out of the deal for now. “We will continue working with these markets on their storage plans,” Kremer said.