who founded the first free web based email service hotmail
Jack Smith (Hotmail) Jack Smith, along with Sabeer Bhatia, founded the first free web-based email service, Hotmail.com, in 1996.[1]
History of the World Wide Web On August 6, 1991,[18] Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, inviting collaborators.[19] This date is sometimes confused with the public availability of the first web servers, which had occurred months earlier.