可以说,Hotmail的两位创始人Sabeer Bhatia与Jack Smith是网页电邮(Webbased Email)这类互联网服务的发明者,他们的确是第一个把这样的服务落实到互联网的企业。但是,当Sabeer与Jack这两位前苹果工程师一开始聚在一起时,根本不是想做网页电邮。当时,互联网刚刚兴起,浏览器逐渐普及,他们第一个想到的是通过网页来管理数据库(Database)。 It can be said that Hotmail’s two founders, Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, were the inventors of Internet services such as Webbased Email, and were indeed the first to bring such services to the Internet. But when the two former Apple engineers, Saber and Jack, got together at first, they did not want to do webmail at all. At that time, the Internet was just emerging, the browser became more and more popular, and the first thing they thought of was to manage the database through the web page.