pendulum swinging

web has revolutionized SO much, created SO much. sometimes this dawns on me and i get all giddy.

anywho......

i was thinking that there's lots of FREE STUFF lately and am wondering if the web stuff is getting back to the earlier pre-bust days. ya know, people giving away stuff on the web and not being revenue-minded.

to elaborate, my yahoo mailbox is FREE and always has been. it works off of an ad model. i guess i'm cynical, but how can yahoo generate enough revenue from ads? then, they increase their capacity to compete with gmail. well are they making more $$ to help pay the extra storage bills?

how does this work? am i missing something? must be.