{"id":13,"date":"2008-06-27T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adambryson.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-06-27T09:37:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T16:37:24","slug":"y-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/2008\/06\/27\/y-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Yahoo has introduced two new email service extensions to their free emails: @rocketmail and @ymail. I guess the @ymail is a slam on Google for their @gmail accounts.<\/p>\n<p>I got my very first email account at MSN about 20 years ago. I had one at AOL for a while but didn&#8217;t like the AOL service and gave it up, although I have to admit that a few other times over the years I would get suckered into signing up with AOL again for accessibility issues or some reason. But AOL just never did it for me.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t get past the fact that I was invited to go to work for them when they first opened offices back in the 80&#8217;s. When I went for the interview and took a tour of their offices, I was struck by how stressed out and anxious everyone seemed. There was absolutely no laughter or happiness evident in any of the cubicles or offices.<br \/>\nI knew after that tour that I didn&#8217;t want to work in an office environment like that. Quality of life is more important to me than the paycheck. So I turned them down and have had a bad taste for AOL ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Yahoo has introduced two new email service extensions to their free emails: @rocketmail and @ymail. I guess the @ymail is a slam on Google for their @gmail accounts. I got my very first email account at MSN about 20 years ago. I had one at AOL for a while but didn&#8217;t like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/2008\/06\/27\/y-mail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Y Mail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashbacks","category-money","category-tekkie","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}