email addresses were treated as disposable and temporary from how i remember it before gmail went mainstream.
providers came and went and custom domains for emails were extremely rare... at least in my circles
providers came and went and custom domains for emails were extremely rare... at least in my circles
Not at all. On the consumer level they were typically associated with your ISP account. So you'd get to be <version-of-your-name>@<isp-net.com>
My parents still have the email they set up with the minuscule local cable company in the early 2000's. That's only the second email they've ever had outside of the dialup provider email they had in the late 90's (when internet finally came to our small town)
thats how it was in my circles until ~05-06. everyone kept switching emails and used a different address on each service/forum. until gmail came along. suddenly everyone used their gmail address for everything. and even that got phased out when facebook came along.