I liked when it was clear what camp people fell into by their email address — you had the webtv lunatics, the Hotmail n00bs, the AOL strange and the super cool people like me with bespoke ISPs

@jbigham i got hotmail in 8th grade!!! i wasn't a n00b

@jbigham recently discovered that so many of the MSR old-timers still have hotmail.com addresses for their personal email!

@jbigham ha ha I’ve had a number of friends refer to my “vanity email” derisively

@jbigham I just used my dad’s isp one to sign up for Steam. I don’t think I had my own email until gmail came out

@jbigham this is juno erasure (to say nothing of all the well.com perverts back then)