the.com/yahoo mail
the internet's oldest inbox, still open, like a college friend who never quite left town.
means a free webmail service launched in 1997 that lets you send, receive, and hoard email under a yahoo.com address.
from born from yahoo the directory site, itself named for a term meaning crude, unsophisticated brute, chosen half-jokingly by its founders in 1994.
launch year1997, three years before gmail existed
storage jumpwent from 4mb to 1tb in 2007
breach scale2013 hack exposed all 3 billion accounts
still aliveowned by apollo global via yahoo inc