Post by You probably can't touch this. on Jul 6, 2004 22:37:10 GMT -8
If you haven't heard (I'm pretty sure everyone with a pulse and at least a dial-up connection has), Google built it's own free email service. This service is called Gmail. Gmail may possibly be the most evil and diobolical creation the internet has every created, except maybe for Gaia...freakin' board nazis.
Anyway, Gmail promises to deliver 1 whole friggin' GB of storage space while not having pop-ups or ads all over their website. Instead, Gmail will automatically link certain words or phrases in the email to an advertiser. In other words, when you mention to someone about the 80's band Wang Chung the word "wang" will be linked to a "member"- enlargement website.
This would all be kind of cool if it weren't for the bastards at Google hyping the whole think up and letting only their friends in. People are already on swap sites trying to cut a deal with some gmail members to trade with them. This pisses me off. Since I'm way too lazy to bargain with anybody and have no connections I can exploit at Google, I have taken the road many great men have taken in my position.
I have declared a personal Holy War against Gmail. If I can't have one, NOBODY WILL! Sure they say that its in beta, but we all know that they are trying to set themselves up as the Upper Class of the Internet. We who toil with the ackward Hotmail or Yahoo services are laughed at by these privaleged few. We must rise up and topple this evil empire of emailers! Long live the Commom People of the Internet!
*Note to readers: Keeping in mind that I am too lazy to offer things in which to trade for a gmail membership, thus I am also way to lazy to lead a revolution. The reason for my passionate words at the end is to inspire someone to topple Gmail for me. Please, be inspired...
Anyway, Gmail promises to deliver 1 whole friggin' GB of storage space while not having pop-ups or ads all over their website. Instead, Gmail will automatically link certain words or phrases in the email to an advertiser. In other words, when you mention to someone about the 80's band Wang Chung the word "wang" will be linked to a "member"- enlargement website.
This would all be kind of cool if it weren't for the bastards at Google hyping the whole think up and letting only their friends in. People are already on swap sites trying to cut a deal with some gmail members to trade with them. This pisses me off. Since I'm way too lazy to bargain with anybody and have no connections I can exploit at Google, I have taken the road many great men have taken in my position.
I have declared a personal Holy War against Gmail. If I can't have one, NOBODY WILL! Sure they say that its in beta, but we all know that they are trying to set themselves up as the Upper Class of the Internet. We who toil with the ackward Hotmail or Yahoo services are laughed at by these privaleged few. We must rise up and topple this evil empire of emailers! Long live the Commom People of the Internet!
*Note to readers: Keeping in mind that I am too lazy to offer things in which to trade for a gmail membership, thus I am also way to lazy to lead a revolution. The reason for my passionate words at the end is to inspire someone to topple Gmail for me. Please, be inspired...
