14 DAY TRIAL // Yahoo Mail today celebrates the 10th birthday as the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo acquired Four 11, the developers of RocketMail, ten years ago in October 1997. Since then, Yahoo Mail has grown up a lot and it has become one of the top solutions on the market due to its continuously increasing popularity among the Internet consumers. At that time, Yahoo's mail solution was regarded as a product that is going to change the world because it offered address book features, remote mail account access and what was the most attractive function - 3 megabytes of storage space. Pretty amazing if you think that in 1997 the HDD capacities were quite small and all the users were looking for other ways to store their information.
In fact, Yahoo Mail was first used as a simple way to communicate on the web since 3 megabytes of storage size was useful only if you intended to search simple text messages with no attachments. Now, most of the users are sending image files attached to the messages so the need of larger storage technologies was increased. But Yahoo Mail also grew up and is now offering no less than infinite capacity which enables any register user to save any file inside the Yahoo Mail account.
But the most important evolution of the Yahoo Mail was recorded this year when the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo added lots of goodies to their mail technologies. It all started with the implementation of Yahoo Messenger, the famous instant messaging client which is now accessible straight from the interface of the mail service, allowing the consumers to communicate with their friends without leaving the mail's screen.
Then, Yahoo announced that all the users will have unlimited capacity and storage size which means nobody is forced to remove the messages since they are all stored in their accounts. This was obviously a move meant to challenge the other super giant, the one from Mountain View company which is offering Gmail, the mail technology that until then, it offered the largest storage size on the market.