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1996 Internet vs 2011 Internet [INFOGRAPHIC] #yam
Building on yesterdays nostalgia of email providers, here is an infographic showing how the internet has developed since 1996.
Created by: Online University
Unfortunately my own personal web project, my site dedicated to '80's band The Rose of Avalanche was not archived by the WayBackMachine until November 1999 so I've lost my amazing website designs (!) over those first three years, but in this post I briefly celebrate getting a Sunset Strip featured site award from Geocities back in the day! Man I'm feeling old!
Are email addresses your new fashion statement?
This article on Silicon Alley Insider comments that @aol.com addresses are cool again. It reminds me of many amusing and surprisingly passionate conversations I've been involved in over the years concerning people's choice of email provider.
Like the car you drive, the jeans you wear, the supermarket you shop in, the coffee you drink, does your email address reveal the kind of person you are?
Here is a great infographic from The Oatmeal on the subject:
Outside of my own personalised domains, I have remained loyal to Hotmail. Looks like this puts me in the uncool crowd! The Oatmeal clearly thinks so, as does this piece on Huff Post which claims just 47% of Hotmail users are "Tech savvy" vs. 66% on Gmail.
This has left me open to much derision from Gmail fans, but I guess I've been around on the net for a long time and can remember back to when Hotmail was the original free email pioneer. There is a nice history of Hotmail here, written by Microsoft's Group Program manager for Hotmail, Dick Craddock.
The most comprehensive analysis I came across is published on Hunch Blog in March 2011. If you click here you can explore the interactive persona's of each type of email user.
My first address was of course on CompuServe (remember the number based address?) 1996 was a memberable time when we got to pick our own name as a vanity email address. Woo-hoo! I found some of my old CompuServe artifacts a while back:
