Hotmail’s Legacy And Moon Vs Rafe

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**SPEAKER_4** (0:35)
Remember we were talking yesterday about nostalgic websites? You know, from the beginnings of the internet, who mentioned rotten.com, rotten.com, Geocities and Evolves World?
I feel like it should be a documentary about that website.

**Rafe** (0:58)
The thing that you can find freely now.
It was very much curated by rotten.com back in the day. Some of the spectacle of the internet that has become commonplace used to have a little dark corner you had to go to to get it.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:13)
But accessible to all.

**Rafe** (1:15)
Accessible to all. It would take a minute.
You had to work. Because it took a while to load, you know, those old, back in the dial-up modem days. We were like, what's college blowout? And then you'd click on it. And it was like a guy powerlifting that like basically...

**SPEAKER_4** (1:30)
I'll blow out his colon.

**Rafe** (1:32)
Yeah, what's that called? Prolapse? Does he have like blue all the way through the workout?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:36)
rotten.com is not a thing anymore. rotten.com will come to right now.

**Scott** (1:39)
That's a bummer.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:39)
It is.

**Scott** (1:41)
It's a bummer. It is.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:42)
A site cannot be reached. Gone, unless it's blocked here on the Hubbard servers.
But one of the other websites people were kicking around was Hotmail.

**Scott** (1:52)
Oh, yeah, Hotmail is great.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:54)
And if you're somewhat of a certain age, your first email address was a Hotmail.

**Rafe** (1:59)
Yeah, I can usually... That's a dead giveaway in a lot of our Point feedback of complaints of the age of a person that...

**SPEAKER_4** (2:07)
That's gonna be my point.

**Rafe** (2:09)
I can usually see the email that it comes from and be like, I know exactly who this person is.

**Scott** (2:14)
It's like Hotmail, SBC Global is another one.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:16)
So, Hotmail...
If you're someone of a certain age, your first email address was Hotmail, along with everyone you knew. Those days are long gone, or are they? A new poll asked, do you use a hotmail.com email address?

**Rafe** (2:31)
They're still around.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:32)
They're still around?

**Rafe** (2:32)
I have one. Do you still have one?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:36)
I couldn't tell you.

**Rafe** (2:37)
I don't know if I... It is my dummy email when I don't wanna get spammed.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:43)
You still use your Hotmail?

**Rafe** (2:45)
Like, if I'm filling something out where they require an email and it's like, why do I have to do this to check out at Bed, Bath and Beyond? I don't care, I don't wanna get coupons, I don't want this stuff, but it'll make you put in a valid email and it'll check it. So I still throw in my...

**SPEAKER_4** (2:57)
So you still throw in your Hotmail, huh?

**Rafe** (2:59)
I probably got a Hotmail account full of coupons.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:01)
Did we all have Hotmails? Did you have a Hotmail, Moon? Yeah, for sure. So 18% of people are still rocking the Hotmail. 18%.
25% said no, but they used to. 53% said they never had a Hotmail address, which meant probably younger than 35 or older than 60 4% have never heard a Hotmail.
One person commented on this ball, I tied a video game to it long ago and still occasionally need access to it. Others say they use it for spam.

**Rafe** (3:30)
Yeah, I think it's still, it's tied to my Apple account in some ways. I think I changed that recently.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:37)
Well, majority of, and I looked this up, the majority of the Hotmail addresses were issued in the late 90s and early 2000s. In 07, the service was rebranded as Windows Live before being shifted back to Hotmail in 2011
But that was short-lived. In 2013, Microsoft retired the Hotmail brand and transitioned the platform to outlook.com.

**Rafe** (4:02)
So that's what our Outlooks are now? They're technically Hotmail.

**Scott** (4:05)
Wow.

**Rafe** (4:05)
We're on Outlook.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:08)
Wow.

**Rafe** (4:08)
It's folded in.