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Which company launched the first widely used web-based free email service in 1996, popularising the idea of accessing email through a browser?
Answer
Hotmail
Hotmail launched on 4 July 1996 — the date was a deliberate nod to freedom from desktop-tied email. It was one of the first webmail services available to the public and quickly gained millions of users before being acquired by Microsoft in 1997.
💡 Did you know?
Hotmail launched on American Independence Day 1996 as a deliberate symbol of freedom — freedom from having to use your employer's or university's email server to send messages.
Other options people guess
- Yahoo Mail
- AOL Mail
- Gmail
Topics
- 1990s
- internet-history
- web-services
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