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The Hotmail Stigma

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the some-things-only-exist-as-a-warning-to-others dept.

canopic jug writes:

Ars Technica has an article over the background behind Hotmail and how it aquired the stigma it has since its purchase back in 1997 for $450 million. Over the years it served as a showcase for several types of failure, including the inability of Windows servers to work in production or to scale.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by looorg on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:19PM (5 children)

    by looorg (578) on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:19PM (#616810)

    I always found the name was the stigma, it just sounded cheap and shitty.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:22PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:22PM (#616813) Journal

    It's the domain + tld combo that is the stigma. They should redirect it to hotmale.xxx.

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:42PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:42PM (#616820) Journal

      The domain + tld is not the problem. It's the incoming mail announcement. It should be:

      You've got male!

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by zocalo on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:42PM (2 children)

    by zocalo (302) on Tuesday January 02 2018, @06:42PM (#616819)
    It's actually a traditional Unix-esque in-joke, since it was one of the first webmail systems: HoTMailL. It might be cheap and shitty, but it's pretty geeky as well.
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @11:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 02 2018, @11:10PM (#616960)

      I get hot mail from wikileaks.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @04:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @04:39PM (#617202)

      I didn't know it had 2 Ls. Thanks for the education.

      /sarc /ped