What happened to Hotmail? Microsoft's once-ubiquitous email platform still exists, but not in the form you remember

What happened to Hotmail? Microsoft's once-ubiquitous email platform still exists, but not in the form you remember

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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. Ask Jeeves is now Ask.com, and GeoCities is simply gone.

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