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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by ipaddr on Monday December 27, 2021 @02:09AM (#29700212)
That's a good point but odds are gmail won't be around in 20 years. The most popular email 20 years ago was aol later hotmail. Most popular search yahoo, altavista are gone. ICQ is mostly gone.

Myspace is gone. Facebook is dying slowly hopefully to be replaced with some form in the meta world.

To make it 18 years is special but it's going to take a lot of reinvention to keep up for the next 20 years. They have the best odds but so did myspace

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by Illniyar on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:04AM (#29702161)
ICQ is very much alive, and popular in Russia for example.

Hotmail transitioned to Microsoft outlook.com, and you can still use your hotmail domain email, even if you can't register new ones.

As far as I know aol mail is still available.

Myspace is still live, including all the old pages and you can probably listen to music uploaded to it in the past as well.

Losing popularity does not mean shutting down.

Yahoo search and Altavista are not the same, since you did not upload information to them nor bought something. Though Yahoo search is still alive anyway.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by siva7 on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:27AM (#29700597)
Those services existed only for a few years before fb, google etc took over
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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by dijit on Monday December 27, 2021 @05:07AM (#29701153)
AOL had been around since at least 1991 and was still extremely popular well into the mid 00's.

Hotmail launched in 1996 and GMail didn't get popular until at least 10 years later. (IMAP was added in 2007~ and the beta was lifted in 2009 iirc).

That's a lot of time to be relatively dominant, but they're reminiscent of zombies these days.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by wccrawford on Monday December 27, 2021 @05:46AM (#29701334)
AOL still exists and still provides email accounts.
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