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Looking through the Wayback Machine, it seems like this was a funky styled-email service that allows sending emails with backgrounds, emojis, etc.: http://web.

Looking through the Wayback Machine, it seems like this was a funky styled-email service that allows sending emails with backgrounds, emojis, etc.: http://web.archive.org/web/20200225122954/http://www.incredimail.com/en/home http://web.archive.org/web/20200225122954/http://www.incredi... Definitely something whose time seems to have passed, and probably legacy for a couple of years judging by the "Windows 7" support badge on the bottom; I'm not quite sure how this is newsworthy, but then again, it's always interesting to see a relic from another age

londons_explore 7y ago
Back in the days of AOL and bonzi buddy, I used incredimail for a bit. Kinda surprised they can't make a profit by injecting ads into every email sent and received and leaving everything else in maintanance mode. Perhaps that's what they've been doing already for the last decade.
iforgotpassword 7y ago
Oh Yes, that name brings back memories. One day the mails from one aunt started looking exceptionally silly with background images, animated gifs, fonts, you name it. Next time I paid her a visit I saw that she switched from outlook express to Incredimail. And oh boy, that client looked as atrocious as the mails it produced.
- m-p-3 7y ago
  I remember some of my relatives using it at the time, and I was using MSN Messenger slightly before it became a mess with nudge[1] (allows you to shake the window of another participant and make some noise, that went as well as you'd think) and other unnecessary features. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(instant_messaging) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(instant_messaging)
JeanMarcS 7y ago
Believe it or not but I have a client who still use it. I’ve been telling him for ages to stop. Hope now he will.
- axlee 7y ago
  Why would he? It's not like modern desktop email applications have any more features than the ones we used 20 years ago. If he is comfortable with the UX...
  - m-p-3 7y ago
    Sometimes it's not about features, but unfixed security flaws.
  - JeanMarcS 7y ago
    And this particular one had a bad reputation of installing adware and all back in the days

londons_explore 7y ago

Back in the days of AOL and bonzi buddy, I used incredimail for a bit. Kinda surprised they can't make a profit by injecting ads into every email sent and received and leaving everything else in maintanance mode. Perhaps that's what they've been doing already for the last decade.

iforgotpassword 7y ago

Oh Yes, that name brings back memories. One day the mails from one aunt started looking exceptionally silly with background images, animated gifs, fonts, you name it. Next time I paid her a visit I saw that she switched from outlook express to Incredimail. And oh boy, that client looked as atrocious as the mails it produced.

m-p-3 7y ago
I remember some of my relatives using it at the time, and I was using MSN Messenger slightly before it became a mess with nudge[1] (allows you to shake the window of another participant and make some noise, that went as well as you'd think) and other unnecessary features. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(instant_messaging) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(instant_messaging)

JeanMarcS 7y ago

Believe it or not but I have a client who still use it. I’ve been telling him for ages to stop. Hope now he will.

axlee 7y ago
Why would he? It's not like modern desktop email applications have any more features than the ones we used 20 years ago. If he is comfortable with the UX...
- m-p-3 7y ago
  Sometimes it's not about features, but unfixed security flaws.
- JeanMarcS 7y ago
  And this particular one had a bad reputation of installing adware and all back in the days