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Gmail vs Hotmail vs Yahoo was pretty big, and before that, AOL.
Gmail vs Hotmail was easy. Gmail started at 1GB for your emails. At the same time, Hotmail was 2MB. Yes M and B
I mean, email was text or richtext. Occasionally a 35 kB gif that you'd laugh at and then delete.
Part of the issue was that Hotmail was completely inept at blocking spam, which had lots of text and images. I ran out of space daily
I completely forgot that there was almost no spam filtering back then. It was awful. I takey smart machine learning spam filters for granted.