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Comment on Ask HN: Why did Gmail become popular?

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It had 2GB, an insane amount of storage. Hotmail had around 20MB? I remember that figure. That was reason #1 that is caught on.

Reason #2, it was invite only and it had this sense of "exclusivity" that eventually went away.

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