A generation ago, AOL, Ask Jeeves, GeoCities, and Hotmail were all the rage. Surprisingly, of those 1990s vintage platforms, only AOL still exists in anything like its original form.
Hotmail was first launched in the summer of 1996, and it was bought by Microsoft the following year, as the company coasted on the success of its massively popular Windows operating system.
Despite being one of the most popular email platforms of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hotmail was also plagued by problems. In 1999, for example, it came out that any account could be logged into using the word "eh" as the password.
In 2013, Microsoft rolled Hotmail into Outlook and sunset the original email service, leading to a continuation of the Hotmail brand under Outlook.
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