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richev
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Ask HN: Which startups have the most interesting p...
HoTMaiL
kamilafsar
on Sept 7, 2022
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> The name "Hotmail" was chosen out of many possibilities ending in "-mail" as it included the letters HTML, the markup language used to create web pages (to emphasize this, the original type casing was "HoTMaiL").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook.com
Ahh.. never knew that's where the name comes from.
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