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The Launch of the Gmail Storage Standard (2004)

    Google shocked the tech sector by offering 1 gigabyte of free cloud email storage. This structural move encouraged consumers to permanently store entire lifetimes of textual communications on cloud servers rather than deleting them, generating massive text-mining repositories.

    Part of the 30 AI Roots Facts: The Mobile Revolution & Big Data Explosion (2001–2005) archive. HistoricallyVerified

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