Yahoo! Mail welcome message that I received in 2001

I was going through my archives and found this one from 2001 when I had created my first Yahoo! account.

It has been over 20 years since and the way that we use the internet today has transformed radically.

Many of the services listed by Yahoo! in the screenshot here don't exist anymore or I have not used them for very long.

Yahoo! Messenger: This was a widely used instant messaging service during those days but was shut down on July 17, 2018. It was replaced by a new service called Yahoo! Together, but that one was also shut down in 2019.

Yahoo! Companion: This was a browser toolbar plugin which would nicely snap under Internet Explorer's main toolbar. It had direct buttons for search, news, pop-up blocker, e-mail and other Yahoo! services. A screenshot of its look and feel can be found here.

Yahoo! increases free email storage space to 1 gigabyte

Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday it will soon begin giving users of its free Web e-mail service 1 gigabyte of storage, four times more than it now offers, amid intense competition. Google Inc. last spring was the first to offer 1 gigabyte of free storage to users of its invitation-only test Gmail service, setting off me-too moves from rivals. CIOL has an article on this here.

Google Launches Gmail

Google announced the preview release of Gmail, a free webmail service with a massive storage capacity of 1 gigabyte per user. The idea came from a user who complained about existing email services' limitations. Gmail allows users to search all their emails easily and offers efficient organization without the need for filing or deleting messages. The preview version is being tested by a select group of users. The service would be available at http://gmail.google.com. Here is the press release from Google.