Get the Most Storage Out of Your Free Yahoo! Mail Account

Yahoo! Mail

When internet aficionados David Filo and Jerry Yang first created the world's first online directory back in 1994 from a trailer, they had no idea that they were creating what would one day become an international mega-corporation, hosting the most visited site on the internet and serving hundreds of millions of people around the world.

While Yahoo! owes its success to many factors, part of their secret is their highly popular free mail service, Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! Mail is one of the most commonly used-web based e-mail systems in the world (along with competitors such as Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail systems). These e-mail accounts are offered free to anyone with access to an internet connection. By offering this free service, it guaranteed loyal traffic on a regular basis from all of its e-mail clients.

Yahoo! Mail is accessible by anyone, a simple, user-friendly service that allows users to send and receive e-mails from any internet-connected comuter in the world. Messages are stored on an online server, rather than on the user's computer, allowing them to access their information from anywhere.

Although previously Yahoo! had fairly small amounts of storage space, this has changed in 2005 to include up to 1 gigabyte of e-mail storage. I remember how happy I was the day that the new storage rules went into effect. I like many people have spent plenty of time trying to clear out my inbox just to allow room for new messages to come in. Now with 1 gigabyte of storage space I doubt I will ever come near my limit. Since the switchover I haven't once thought about cleaning out my inbox and still have only used 5% of my allotted space.

Yahoo! has also introduced PhotoMail, a new system that works in conjunction with the normal e-mail to allow people to send photos over the internet quickly and easily. Photos can be inserted directly into e-mails, without the hassle of attachments, and it also provides a special storage place for photos. I haven't used this program myself, but from what I have read it is a pretty impressive system, and a welcome addition to the normal Yahoo! Mail.

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