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You might be too young to have experienced this, but this is literally how things used to be, and they worked pretty ok. When you payed your ISP for internet s
by tengbretson 6y ago
You might be too young to have experienced this, but this is literally how things used to be, and they worked pretty ok.
When you payed your ISP for internet service it used to include an email account with it.
- wutbrodo 6y agoNot that I necessarily agree with the GP commenter, but this doesn't address his point. Things "used to" be this way during a time period with a billion less Internet users, who've come largely from the poorer parts of the developing world. The claim is that a high-quality free email service doesn't matter as much to someone with lots of disposable income in the first world as it does to people who aren't as fortunate.
- tengbretson 6y agoI don't know what to say. I don't claim to be an expert on what life is like in the developing world, so I'll have to defer to people like missedthecue and yourself to tell me what it's like there.
- missedthecue 6y agoI thought the whole point here is that we don't like walled gardens?
- eloisant 6y agoAs long as you can email anyone with your ISP's email, it's not a walled garden.