call from the past
hotmail was very, very useful in those days when I travelled a lot in Asia and elsewhere, pretty cool to let your parents and friends know you're sitting in some dodgy Pakistani cafe in the middle of a tribal zone. Only to find out, weeks later, back at home, that those "sent" messages, never actually arrived. Oh well.
25 years later: I go to France, try to log in to (web-based) hotmail: "We seem to have detected you are logging in from a new and potentially DANGEROUS location. And, is it really you anyway?! To log in from this location, please complete blah-blah-blah". Sadly, to remedy such issues, I made a fatal error by setting up a gmail account, where the MS verification code would arrive to (no mobile numbers, no f.. way). So I'm logging in to my Gmail (web-based) throw-away account, only to see: "We seem to have detected you are logging in from a new and potentially DANGEROUS location. And, is it really you anyway?! To log in from this location, please complete blah-blah-blah".
So much for FUCKING convenience of "access-ANYWHERE" free e-mail accounts.
That said, I've retained my hotmail account since 1990s, and actually use it quite a lot as my secondary one.