it's quite funny when you think about how many commercial internet services that were originally offered to the public for free, usually to cross-promote or gro

it's quite funny when you think about how many commercial internet services that were originally offered to the public for free, usually to cross-promote or grow some other business (advertising, mostly, it seems), that now, as the internet has subsumed more basic functions in society, are basically as vital as a telephone was 30+ years ago. like, imagine if gmail announced they were shutting down...