What Ever Happened to Hotmail?

[Shawn Knight]

It wasn't that difficult to be perceived as a technology bigwig in the mid-90s. All you needed to impress the masses was a spiffy email address, and there was no provider hotter than the aptly-named Hotmail.

Read the full article here.

https://www.techspot.com/article/2376-hotmail/

 

[FaTaL]

I still use my hotmail... its my windows / xbox account now

 

[Hardware Geek]

I still use my Hotmail account. Same account I've had for decades.

 

[poohbear]

I remember attending a resume workshop recently wherein the presenter said if you use "hotmail" on your resume then the employer will probably toss your resume in the garbage...who the hell wants to hire someone with an email from the 1990s?! Made sense... the tech aware use Gmail.

 

[trgz]

Made sense... the tech aware use Gmail.

...or both

 

[Toju Mikie]

I remember attending a resume workshop recently wherein the presenter said if you use "hotmail" on your resume then the employer will probably toss your resume in the garbage...who the hell wants to hire someone with an email from the 1990s?! Made sense... the tech aware use Gmail.

I think that company may be masking age discrimination... anyway, I'm mostly a live.com user which is also under Microsoft.

 

[elementalSG]

I still use my hotmail account from when I signed up in 1998, when 56K modems were the blazing fastest internet connection. Good memories!

 

[Squid Surprise]

I have had 4 hotmail accounts for over 25 years... all still work, all still useful

Also have a few gmail, and work email addresses as well... and a couple from my ISP... can never have too many

 

[Lionvibez]

I still use my hotmail... its my windows / xbox account now

ditto my primary email is still a hotmail one.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I wasn't aware that Hotmail went anywhere, I mean, considering that I was in my Hotmail account this morning. LOL

 

[Julio Franco]

Haha, true. I have liked a few of your comments. But of course, the context of the article is about the history of Hotmail, the ups and downs and the transition away from "Hotmail" to become Outlook.

 

[defaultluser]

Still using mine I now have a Gmail account (only for my phone, and if I need to apply for a job.)

Did they switch over all new addresses to "@Outlook.com?"

 

[harm9963]

I still use my hotmail... its my windows / xbox account now

Here as well !

 

[p51d007]

I've used hotmail since it came along. Yeah, I log into outlook.com, but I still use my hotmail address. ANYTHING I order online, any site I sign up for, log into, gets the hotmail address. Cuts the spam down on my other addresses.

 

[Biostud]

Still have my hotmail account, but I've just added a mail alias @outlook.com to it, which is actually a pretty neat feature.

 

[Prosercunus]

Happened? My main email account is still my Hotmail account, I mean, at least in name.

 

[Danny101]

I converted my Hotmail accounts to Live, and then to Outlook. I've had a few accounts end up in internet heaven.

 

[Soulburn74]

Still using my pre MS hotmail account to this day!

 

[GianOp]

Hotmail is still a nightmare to manage spam...

 

[Athlonite]

I still use my hotmail... its my windows / xbox account now

Same here I've had mine since 1999

 

[trgz]

I still use my hotmail account from when I signed up in 1998, when 56K modems were the blazing fastest internet connection. Good memories!

56K?! You were lucky! When I were a kid, we 'ad nowt but a damp pair of grandad's old shoelaces for a connection and a 110 baud modem made from a discarded old egg carton.

 

[Bamda]

I still have a hotmail.com account.

 

[QuantumPhysics]

I still use my hotmail... its my windows /Onedrive/ xbox account now

 

[QuantumPhysics]

The visual layout of Hotmail is terrible. It's a nightmare to manage spam there - and you will get global spam from all over the world.

I hate the visual layout of Gmail, only a little less than Hotmail. My favorite is actually Yahoo.

 

[hwertz]

I remember attending a resume workshop recently wherein the presenter said if you use "hotmail" on your resume then the employer will probably toss your resume in the garbage...who the hell wants to hire someone with an email from the 1990s?! Made sense... the tech aware use Gmail.

I mean, I have a Gmail account, and am no Microsoft fan. But trashing a resume based on e-mail address? Wow. How lazy are these HR people that they can't be bothered to at least glance at a 1-3 page document, when it's literally a main part of their job to do so? To be honest, working for companies with dysfunctional HR departments can be hell so it might be just as well letting them bin one's resume.