<p>I signed up to a Hotmail account in the mid nineties. Years later I signed up to a Gmail account, because it</p><p>I stopped using my Hotmail account in favour of Google's service, but I made sure to login every month to keep it going, and to preserve all those old emails.</p><p>And then one month, in around 2007, I forgot and the whole thing was wiped.</p><p>I was upset to lose all that correspondence, that history with some people who had now passed on, even a genuine death threat from someone who really should have known better. All those moments lost in time.</p><p><a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/11/can-the-nsa-give-me-access-to-my-old-hotmail-emails-please/">Keep reading...</a></p>