>The UI was pretty shitty, and not much better than Hotmail. UI performance was great due to early use of ajax. If you had bad connection, which was extremely

>The UI was pretty shitty, and not much better than Hotmail. UI performance was great due to early use of ajax. If you had bad connection, which was extremely common in 2000's, then it worked way better than any alternative. Of course, now it's the other way around, static websites are fast and SPAs can be dogshit slow.