Hotmail, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone David Rosenthal 6Ben Gilbert 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Hotmail comes up
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 7:46 Ben Gilbert The universe at the time is Microsoft sells sort of enterprise grade mail for a lot of money, or there's all these free web-based services popping up like Hotmail that Microsoft would end up buying and Yahoo Mail and AOL.
- ▶ 8:02 David Rosenthal At the time, Hotmail, which as you said, Microsoft owns,
- ▶ 13:19 David Rosenthal Okay, Hotmail's out there, Yahoo Mail's out there, Webmail's out there.
- ▶ 14:49 David Rosenthal Yeah, but this is how Hotmail and Yahoo Mail worked.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:13:36 David Rosenthal Now to put that in context, Yahoo and Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail at the time had like two megabytes of free storage per user.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:52:33 David Rosenthal The other big piece of it, honestly, maybe even the biggest piece of it from talking to folks was Hotmail.
- ▶ 2:52:39 David Rosenthal Microsoft had acquired Hotmail back in 1997 and ran it
- ▶ 3:52:59 Ben Gilbert Hotmail was a web application that hundreds of millions relied on.