How i miss the days when you weren’t evil.

I discovered the other day that the creation date for my hotmail address can be found within my account settings. My dear old punkaroo (embarrassing, i know) address has been around since October 20th, 1997. I’m pretty sure that was my first personal email account, and it served as my primary until I started at U of T, so at least 2 years, probably 3.

Hotmail at the time wasn’t owned by Microsoft, and I seem to recall was the coolest of all free email providers. I absolutely had to get my own account, as having personal email (you know, the 3 messages a month i received at that time) shared with my parents in our idirect.ca address provided with our 33.6 dial-up account was just not good at all. 17 Year old me demanded privacy.