Hotmail was the world’s first free email services, founded by Sabeer Bhatia in 1996. Hotmail was later acquired by Microsoft, and free email services have become central to the business model of some of out best know technology companies. Here I am gathering providers of free emails services as I remember them from the past or as I come across new ones. More details on some of them are shown in separate posts.
| Microsoft | outlook.com | |
| gmail.com | ||
| Yahoo | mail.yahoo.com | |
| Yandex | mail.yandex.com | |
| AOL | mail.aol.com | |
| GMX | gmx.com | |
| Mail.com | mail.com | |
| ProtonMail | protonmail.com | |
| Tutanota | tutanota.com | |
| Zoho | zoho.com | |
| Lycos | mail.lycos.com | |
| iCloud | icloud.com/mail |