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Locke1689 on Dec 10, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hotmail development team on Reddit

Yup, I think user accounts are recycled. It's got its benefits and its downsides. I think it will be interesting to see 80 years from now. I guess non-recycled usernames will just get more esoteric?

dflock on Dec 10, 2010 [–]

Yeah, there are a lot of characters in the full unicode set.

Locke1689 on Dec 10, 2010 | [–]

There are far fewer human-readable combinations. There are even fewer with fewer than 10 characters.

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