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Hotmail is 10 years old this month!
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Officially launched by entrepreneurs Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in November 1996, it has become the most used web-based email service on the planet.
Hotmail is evolving over the next few months to fall in line with Windows Live branding,becoming Windows Live Mail.Windows Live Mail will be faster, simpler, safer, and offer greater connection.
Here's some birthday facts about Hotmail:
1. In 1996, 56,041 people signed up for a Hotmail account (to make it easier to comprehend that, apparently that's the size of Taunton in Somerset. Not very helpful if you've not been to Taunton, though, so just imagine any other town with 56,000 residents.
2. 43% of PC owners in the UK have a Hotmail account.
3. 1 billion emails are delivered to Hotmail accounts each day (ahh yeah but how many of those are spam?)
4. 80 million emails are sent by Hotmail users each day.
5. On average, Hotmail users keep 137 emails in their inbox at any one time, 15 times more than the average number of SMS messages we have stored in our mobile phones.
6. Hotmail is used in nearly every country and is available in 17 languages.
7. Over one fifth of the UK population has made friends via MSN Hotmail.
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Posted: 2006-12-08 22:21:32
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Congrats! But I use my Yahoo mail more often . . . I wonder when Gmail will turn - 10
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Posted: 2006-12-08 22:39:53
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gmail imo in ca 8 years or a bit less
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Posted: 2006-12-08 22:48:13
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lol hapyy b day and thanks for all the spam and the accoutn upgrade
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Posted: 2006-12-08 22:49:09
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@*Jojo*
Gmail went live April 1st, 2004 so 10 years after that I guess?
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Posted: 2006-12-08 22:50:52
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yup I'm one of the early registered users for Hotmail... hehehe I was 10 yrs old back then... haha.... and the cool thing about being the 1st few is.... My password is less than 6 characters... coz they have not implement that rule yet back then.... so my password cud be 1,2,3,4,5 letters... hehehe... cool huh.
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Posted: 2006-12-08 22:55:59
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Had hotmail for years, then got Gmail and will NEVER go back.
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Posted: 2006-12-08 22:58:54
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with hotmail you get a gig in box now
happy days!!!!
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Posted: 2006-12-08 23:14:06
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