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# Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Happy 10 Years HoTMaiL!

Yesterday Hotmail turned 10 years old! Let's see, when Hotmail launched I was a sophomore in College, and was still using Gopher before discovering Mosaic, a crazy new GUI for browsing the WWW. I didn't get my own Hotmail account till October 17, 1998 (you can find out when you registered by visiting http://account.live.com).

Anyway, a big happy b-day to Hotmail and here's to the next decade!

 

Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:27:38 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hm... I think accounts.live.com is a bit buggy. According to it, I've only had my account since 7/31/2000. I'm pretty sure I signed up back when I was in college.
Saturday, July 08, 2006 6:03:23 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Wow ... got you beat! My hotmail account goes back to February 1998!
Ellis
Saturday, July 08, 2006 6:29:13 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Registered since:January 01, 1995 for me. :->
Sunday, July 09, 2006 1:28:39 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Mine also says January 01, 1995. I am 99% I did not register on New Years. I do remember mail going around MSFT which said "Grab your MSFT alias on hotmail since we just bought them." and I think that was when I finally got an account.
Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:46:39 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I was a sophomore in College, and was still using Gopher before discovering Mosaic
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