Sure, you could use the AOL program for email, but actually managing it all within a Web browser? Definitely innovative, even as sites like Hotmail offered similar features.Īll these years later, Yahoo‘s done a decent job of keeping Yahoo Mail updated, and there’s even a Yahoo Mail Plus service that offers a lot of cool additional features and capabilities, along with removing ads and offering you lots of storage space, all for a modest fee. I can remember when Yahoo first showed up – as a Web site to organize sumo wrestling Web site bookmarks, believe it or not! – and it was one of the very first to innovate with the idea of Web-based email.

No question, if you’re using Yahoo Mail you’re probably an old-timer when it comes to Internet usage.