Posts from August 2002.

Hotmail - the internet “killer app” that went went down in flames

Hotmail was started as a free web-based e-mail service in 1996. It was not the first, not the best, not the fastest, not the easiest to use and not the most innovative service, but it quickly grew to become the biggest and most popular nonetheless. Then Microsoft joined in the frenzy.

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