It was pretty standard at the time for an email account to allow 20-100mb. 1gb of free, no questions asked email storage was completely wild, then they doubled it!
Prior to this, it was a regular thing for people to go through their emails and delete old ones, and download attachments several times per year or even more often.
Keep in mind that in this era, it was not uncommon for a computer to have just 20gb or HDD, so a free 2gb was a serious amount of storage.
If I recall, gmail started out with 1gb in ~2004.
It was pretty standard at the time for an email account to allow 20-100mb. 1gb of free, no questions asked email storage was completely wild, then they doubled it!
Prior to this, it was a regular thing for people to go through their emails and delete old ones, and download attachments several times per year or even more often.
Keep in mind that in this era, it was not uncommon for a computer to have just 20gb or HDD, so a free 2gb was a serious amount of storage.