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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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