The 21st century is unique in many ways whether it’s from the new inventions and advance in technology and medicine or our somewhat more open view on what were once seen as extremely controversial topics. As each century brought forth a type of culture that impacted its generation and those that grew up in that time frame, the 21st century is no exception. However the 21st century brought with it a thing that is largely artificial as it relies heavily on an intangible object; the internet. We now have a thing called internet culture. The culture defined by things that are popular on one of the most influential tools at our disposal. From comedical things such as internet memes to important influences on our government, the internet is a field of massive proportions. The level of day to day involvement with the internet is staggering as people frequently check Twitter, Instagram, Tinder, emails, Facebook, YouTube, and more as the list goes on and on. Our level of communication with people, whether near or far, is at an all time high as we can send an email to anyone around the world so long as we have their email address. You may have heard recent news about Google changing its structure with the title Alphabet. Seeing how Google is one of the largest internet search engines, email providers, and owner of YouTube this news has caught the attention of many people. But this news on Google doesn’t affect how the general populace use Google products at all but rather is a reorganizing of Google’s company.
What was Hotmail?
For those “youngin’s” who have no idea what Hotmail is, Hotmail is an email provider that was first founded
While Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Hotmail amassed more than 8 million people using them as their choice of email provider, nothing is perfect. Hotmail’s email service had numerous security flaws, the first of which occurred in 1999. At the time of this security issue, anyone could log into any Hotmail email by typing “eh” as the password. Literally no email was secure as all someone had to do was login to your email using the password “eh” gaining access to all of your personal emails. The next in a line of security issues occurred in 2001 when hackers found a flaw in the system allowing anyone the access to pull emails from any Hotmail email: all done by creating a URL with the second email address username and a valid message number. This caused all Hotmail emails to be vulnerable from August 7 to August 31 of the same year.
Despite Hotmail having various security issues that they then later have to fix, Hotmail met some competition in 2004; the aforementioned Gmail. Google had announced that they now had their own email provider but the reason that Gmail had garnered such a large amount of support was the better services provided by Gmail. Offering greater storage space, speed, and interface flexibility, many switched over to Gmail as Hotmail and Yahoo were left scrambling to update and upgrade their email services.
What Happened to Hotmail – Hotmail Now in 2018
Interesting article but the sloppiest writing I have seen in awhile.
“Upon Hotmail’s inception, the service had received an overwhelming amount of support with Hotmail garnering over 8.5 million subscribers in December of 2007.” Maybe you mean ‘since Hotmail’s conception in 1996 Hotmail had garnered 8.5 million subscribers’ ?
“Despite the few security issues akin to Hotmail’s email service, many people were happy with the email provider as countless amount of people still use the new form of Hotmail, Outlook, to this day today.” How about ending with “to this day” or with just “today”, rather than the redundant “to this day today”?
Sorry to be picky but I had to reread most sentences to decipher.
hot mail is kind of bad now, example : wont let you easily discard lots of old mail