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Is Hotmail really hot? The name origin of the webmail

How many of you know of Hotmail? How many of you are using it? With the advance of the internet, the two top internet searching websites –  Google  and  Yahoo! , their webmail services  Gmail  and  Yahoo! Mail  have become preferred online mail services by users around the world. Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail (earlier known as  RocketMail ) were one of the first webmail sites being active since 1996 and 1997 respectively. But this article here is about the former-mentioned webmail service and the question posed is why is Hotmail considered  hot ? The answer is quite simple and not at all connected with the literal meaning and specific choice of the word  hot . Hotmail signup To those of you who have heard of  HTML  – this is the main markup language for creating web pages displayable in a web browser. The initials stand for  HyperText Markup Language . Back in 1990’s most of the websites were created by using this markup lang...