I was a user of Yahoo mail from 1996 or so, and it fit my bill just fine. I preferred it to POP and IMAP clients as I could use it from anywhere without worries

I was a user of Yahoo mail from 1996 or so, and it fit my bill just fine. I preferred it to POP and IMAP clients as I could use it from anywhere without worries. The pure HTML interface was much leaner and faster than the bloated Ajax versions that came later, and I kept using the old HTML version and disabling new versions until they definitely phased it out. I did switch most of my use to Gmail when it came out, but it was due to superior search and more space, not due to Ajax.