How Popular Tech Companies Got Their Names
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How Popular Tech Companies Got Their Names
Hotmail was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, and was commercially launched in 1996. The name 'Hotmail', was chosen out of many possibilities ending in '-mail', as it included the letters HTML (the encoding language used by the World Wide Web). Thus, to emphasize it, the original type casing was "HoTMaiL".