雅虎邮箱十岁了！

由 maqingxi

发表于 10月11, 2007　　

　　1997年10月8日，雅虎公司发布了其邮箱服务 Yahoo! Mail ，一转眼已是十年，Yahoo! Mail 官方博客回顾了其十年的成长历程。

October 1997: Yahoo! Mail launches following our acquisition of Four 11, creators of RocketMail.
December 1998: The movie You've Got Mail debuts.
March 1999: CNN's Ten Commandments of Email cites that Americans sent 2.1 billion emails daily (vs. 196 billion per day this year).
December 1999: Yahoo! Mail launches Spamguard to detect spam and banish it to a separate folder.
January 2000: Web mail survives Y2K.
November 2001: Pope John Paul II is the first pontiff to send an email apology.
March 2002: It's reported internationally that email outpaces snail mail as the preferred method for residential communication.
December 2003: Congress passes the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 to regulate the sending of commercial email.
July 2004: Yahoo! acquires Oddpost, bringing AJAX to Yahoo! and inspiring Yahoo! Mail's most significant upgrade ever.
June 2005: Broadway's "Spamalot" wins Tony Award for Best Musical.
March 2006: IDG study shows that Americans sent 11.8 billion photos via email in 2005, compared with 2.6 billion in 2000. By 2009, this number is projected to 25.7 billion images.
March 2007: Yahoo! Mail announces free, unlimited e-mail storage for all users.
August 2007: According to Comscore , the worldwide Web mail market counts approximately 543 million people, with Yahoo! Mail alone representing 255 million.

　　雅虎邮箱是邮箱的先驱者，拥有众多的使用者，今年还首先将容量扩大至无限量，但随着 Google Mail 的崛起，它倡导了一种全新的理念，迅速被用户接受和追捧。雅虎邮箱也进行了一系列的革新，如加入IM功能，允许用户发送SMS等，但似乎风光仍不及 Google Mail 。

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