As more users came to the service and the cost of bandwidth went up, Apple began charging for the service and called it. Mac's predecessor, was launched on Januat the Macworld Expo in San Francisco and was a free service that included a HomePage, iCards and the much coveted e-mail address that is commonplace today (as well as the forgotten 'KidSafe,' which was a database of kid friendly websites Apple compiled so you could make sure your children weren't up to no good on your Mac). Mac, a service that has been a small part of Apple for almost 8 years.
