Historical clue formulations

• Early email provider — 2026-07-05
• Big inits. in 1990s internet — 2026-04-12
• Hotmail alternative — 2026-03-29
• Internet pioneer — 2026-03-09
• Early leader in instant messaging — 2026-02-16
• Dial-up pioneer — 2025-11-10
• Company that once offered "50 Free Hours" CDs — 2025-09-14
• Early tech giant — 2025-08-28
• Alternative to Yahoo Mail — 2025-07-20
• Pioneer in instant messaging — 2025-07-14
• Early web portal — 2025-06-23
• Yahoo alternative — 2025-06-16
• Longtime email provider — 2025-04-11
• Early internet provider — 2025-04-01
• Early ISP — 2025-02-09
• Early tech giant — 2025-01-16
• Company with a yellow stick-figure mascot known as the "Running Man" — 2024-11-17
• Early I.S.P. — 2024-09-01
• Company that purchased Time Warner in 2001 — 2024-07-17
• Half of an ill-fated 2001 merger — 2024-05-03
• Verizon sale of 2021 — 2024-04-18
• I.M. innovator — 2024-03-29
• Pioneering I.S.P. — 2024-03-27
• Early ISP — 2023-11-05
• Yahoo alternative — 2023-10-02
• Early dial-up service provider — 2023-08-05
• Company that once mailed CDs containing free internet trials — 2023-06-12
• Gmail alternative — 2023-05-25
• "You've got mail" co. — 2023-04-25
• Old "You've got mail" sloganeer — 2023-04-11
• Co. once known as Quantum Computer Services — 2023-04-07
• "You've got mail!" I.S.P. — 2022-12-12
• Verizon sale of 2021 — 2022-12-07
• N.Y.C.-based pioneer in instant messaging — 2022-11-21
• MSN competitor — 2022-11-10
• Internet service provider whose name is now stylized with a period — 2022-10-20
• "Have ___ make my email stop" (Destiny's Child lyric) — 2022-10-16
• I.S.P. alternative to 32-Down — 2022-05-29
• Legacy I.S.P. — 2022-04-18
• Pioneer in instant messaging — 2022-04-15
• "You've got mail" co. — 2022-04-11
• Company that helped launch TMZ — 2021-12-10
• Web portal owned by Verizon — 2021-11-30
• Former Time Warner partner — 2021-11-16
• Big inits. in 1990s internet — 2021-11-15
• Company with an iconic yellow Running Man logo — 2021-10-17
• Pioneering I.S.P. — 2021-01-28
• One of the former Big Three information services, along with CompuServe and Prodigy — 2020-09-20
• One of the pioneers of the internet — 2020-08-15
• I.S.P. once called Quantum Computer Services — 2020-06-20