Happy Birthday Hotmail!

Independence Day this year marked the 10th anniversary since the commercial launch of Hotmail.

Ten years on, we are about to see the biggest upgrade for Hotmail, or rather a complete replacement, with Windows Live Mail.

Interested in a bit of history? Take a look at the MSN Hotmail fact sheet or at Wikipedia. The Hotmail homepage looked a bit bare in 1996.

I just read at Omar’s blog that you can find out when you registered by signing in at account.live.com. I’ve been curious about that for some time, now I know my two were registered on 19 November 1999 and 12 November 2003.

3 Responses to “Happy Birthday Hotmail!”


  • quiero saber como funciona esto

  • Great! I can still remeber that retro style msn, although that was an old account I used back then. And it was like that just a few weeks. After that the layout was pimped!

    Although I’m looking foreward to the AJAX based mail server from microsoft!. I hope it’s faster than the old one, that was beginning to get too outdated for it’s time…

    Le Marquis

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