Web E-Mail: The New Hard Disk

I'm putting up this post by Jeremy Zawodny's blog because the idea he has is just plain cool:

I still remember filling up my first 1GB hard disk and being pretty pissed that it would have cost about $1,200 to get another. Yeah, it was a 5 1/4" inch full height Segate SCSI disk. A real brick and a half. I traded a whole laptop for it.

Nowadays, I just need to turn my files into e-mail attachments and store them on my various free e-mail accounts.

Or I could wait a couple months and use the freely available software that manages all this for me. Heck, maybe someone will write a Linux kernel module that presents it as a virtual filesystem.

The speed would be horrible, but the idea of having what looks like a normal filesystem actually tied to email attachments stored in gargantuan free webmail accounts is too cool not to take notice.

On his cost note for hard drives, I remember buying a Zenith laptop in college that had a 10 mb hard drive, and I was sure I'd never fill it up.