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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:08PM (#22312261)
> And at the time, the actual functionality of gmail was far less significant than the fact it was free and decoupled from your internet provider

If that was the real draw, then people would have just stuck with Hotmail, Yahoo, and the dozen other e-mail providers.

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Re:Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority by stubish on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:59PM (#22314980)
Hotmail and to a lesser extent Yahoo were perceived as toxic, due to spam mostly. There is still a website I frequent which requests customers email to be 'preferably not a @hotmail.com address'. All the other email providers were either restricted (companies, universities, clubs/guilds etc.), poorly run, or tied you to fees (ISP provided, paid email providers, AOL).
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