Apertium netzero mail
A blast from the past!
Apertium is a free and open-source machine translation platform, and NetZero is a now-defunct internet service provider (ISP) that offered free email services to its customers.
In the early 2000s, Apertium and NetZero collaborated to provide a free email service with machine translation capabilities. The service, called "Apertium NetZero Mail", allowed users to send and receive emails in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
Here's how it worked:
- Users would sign up for a NetZero email account, which was free with the ISP's internet service.
- Apertium's machine translation technology would translate incoming and outgoing emails in real-time, allowing users to communicate with people who spoke different languages.
- The translation was done using Apertium's rule-based machine translation system, which was trained on large corpora of text data.
Although Apertium NetZero Mail was a innovative service at the time, it ultimately ceased operations when NetZero discontinued its free email service in 2004. However, Apertium's technology has continued to evolve and is still used today in various machine translation applications.