@nivex I had hotmail back when it was HoTMaiL (see, it spells HTML) and M$ did not have it yet. Great. Now I feel old.
Actually, no, I used a text editor. Back in the day, all the "friendly" HTML editors added too much cruft so I was a purist about hand coding. Oh, the things we were snobbish about...
@kitkendrick wait -- did you use SoftQuad's HoTmeTaL editor, too?
I had an account on a local server that was just my first name. (They went out of business, tho.)