Comment by xtracto

Wow, I just looked and my Gmail welcome message is from Fri, Dec 3, 2004, 3:08 AM. Which means that my Gmail is almost 17 years old I've got to do the takeout backups.

It is amazing how easy is for these type of companies to singlehandedly leave you without access to your own media.

To be honest, a similar thing happened to me when Microsoft decided to remove my Hotmail data after 3 months of not logging in. And also to my original linuxmail.org email... which was a cool email server that one day just disappeared (along with all my conversations) back when the inbox size was max 4MB.