One of the greatest and most useful tools to emerge along with the internet was webmail. Without a doubt: The site www hotmail com ...
One of the greatest and most useful tools to emerge along with the internet was webmail.
Without a doubt:
The site www hotmail com was among the first to capitalize upon the idea of free webmail.When Hotmail first came out:
People found the service so useful that it grew like wildfire!See Infographic for Yahoo Mail
In fact:
- Hotmail actually grew faster than any media company in history to precede it!
- The idea for calling the webmail service Hotmail actually has an interesting story to it.
- The founders ran through a myriad of possibilities for naming the service.
Eventually:
They hit upon HoTMaiL since it contained all the letters of HTML inside it! Pretty clever. Its fast growing popularity caught the attention of even (you guessed it) Microsoft.Even though Hotmail was founded in 1996:
- Microsoft would go on to purchase the service the very next year for the ludicrous amount of $400 million!!
- I'm sure the founders of Hotmail, Sabheer Bhatia and Jack Smith, were very proud of their work.
- Microsoft's investment wasn't without fruit.
See Infographic for GMail
By the year 1999:
Hotmail had grown to become the world's largest webmail service with millions of users online!Here are some more of the hottest facts on Hotmail right here for you to enjoy:
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