I was looking through some old emails last night and came across this one from Hotmail in 2003 (note it’s MB not GB, and they used “thrice” in a sentence!):
Sent: Sat 8/30/2003
Dear MSN Extra Storage subscriber,
Thank you for subscribing to MSN® Extra Storage! Now you can enjoy great benefits such as:
- 10MB of MSN Hotmail® storage — with 5 times the storage of a free Hotmail account, you have plenty of room to store important e-mail and large attachments such as photos. Plus, you can send and receive larger attachments up to 3MB – thrice the size you can send and receive with a free Hotmail account.
- No MSN Hotmail account expiration — as an MSN Extra Storage subscriber, you don’t have to worry about signing in every 30 days to ensure that your Hotmail account stays active.