My first email account was a hotmail account. It was the heady days of 1998 – I was 18 and about to go and follow every young Australian’s clichéd dream of backpacking through Europe. These were the days when finding an internet cafe was a rare occurrence, and even when you did you had to tolerate dial up speeds. Back then, I probably would have signed up for a hotmail.com.au email address if it was available. But that was over a decade ago, and today my hotmail account is a magnet for spam and newsletters I can’t be bothered unsubscribing from.
Honestly, this announcement is about a decade too late. Even though people still use hotmail, adding a .au domain in 2010 seems to be a little, well, ridiculous. Why has it taken so long? Does anybody actually care?
Flame
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 1:30 PMMy First Email(tm) was a Hotmail too. To me they were kind of like the Geocities of the time.
Michael
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 2:10 PMWow I thought they were going to phase out the hotmail addresses in favour of @live.com . I have had a @live.com.au address for a while now too.
steve
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 3:10 PMreally? i recall having a hotmail account back in late highschool – which was around 1998/99…
and i did use that account when traveling europe. – which was admittedly 2001.
Paul
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 4:16 PMI like my hotmail.com address still.
Although could be cool to start a collection
StevoTheDevo
Monday, February 1, 2010 at 8:57 AMMy first email was hotmail.. It died many years ago when it became a spam ridden infestation and I stopped bothering to log in.
By that stage I had 2 other addresses that I used for real email. Including a yahoo.com.au address.