July 4, 1996: Microsoft Hotmail Independence Day Launch

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July 4, 2025 • 6 mins

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“Happy Independence Day. In return, we are going to give you a great new way to get email. It’s called “Hotmail“. Be free from your internet service provider!” That was the call to action on 1996. Hotmail launched their email service as “HoTMaiL” (HTML is upper-case). It is the first web-based email that was later […]

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