You know you are old when...Y
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Out of interest, when was the first email you sent? mine was in 1991 from my colleague.
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Re: You know you are old when...Y
Out of interest, when was the first email you sent? mine was in 1991 from my colleague.
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Re: You know you are old when...Y
Not sure, I would say mid nineties.
I do remember when e-mail was used to forward jokes. Late nineties.
I do remember when e-mail was used to forward jokes. Late nineties.
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Also 1991 at uni.
Type on an Atari STFM running a VT102 emulator.
Type on an Atari STFM running a VT102 emulator.
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you go into hospital and the doctors look young 
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Hopefully they are. Imagine if they were our age...VNVObit wrote:you go into hospital and the doctors look young
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Mails on local networked BBS, 1989.Orava wrote:Out of interest, when was the first email you sent? mine was in 1991 from my colleague.
Proper email (over UUCP...), 1992.
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First actual internet email? 1987, I think. First electronic mail was sent in about 1984, though.
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Well if that counts I used to run a BBS in the mid 1980s, so kind of on-line since 1984.skab wrote:Mails on local networked BBS, 1989.Orava wrote:Out of interest, when was the first email you sent? mine was in 1991 from my colleague.
Proper email (over UUCP...), 1992.
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Yeah, how much you love VAX simulators? Yeah the computer degree in the UK.
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I remember when Tetris came out, 1989/90 if I'm not mistaken.
And starting to get confused about dates is also a sign...
And starting to get confused about dates is also a sign...
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ok if we go way back then it is about 1980 with Philips videopack followed by Mattel Intellivision in 1984
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Pretty sure was at the University in Trieste from the VAX 11/780 they had named "UTS882" and I am SURE at that time there was NO DNS yet and they were using things called "bitnet addresses" that I can't remember how they were done I think they may had or had not the '@' in them and yes I DO REMEMBER at that time we were using REAL, no simulated, DEC VT-100 terminals !
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I spit on your VT-100. It smells of elderberries.
My first experience with electronic mail was through the minicomputer at the local technical college (which I lter graduated to exploiting / crashing innovatively) - we connected to it over telephone using an acoustic coupler, using teletype punch tape readers. You had to enter your messages onto punch tape, dial up the connection and feed in the punch tape, and replies would come back on the teletype.
Actual internet email was when I started work, and even that was delivered on mag tape, by van. Fat bandwidth but lousy latency.
My first experience with electronic mail was through the minicomputer at the local technical college (which I lter graduated to exploiting / crashing innovatively) - we connected to it over telephone using an acoustic coupler, using teletype punch tape readers. You had to enter your messages onto punch tape, dial up the connection and feed in the punch tape, and replies would come back on the teletype.
Actual internet email was when I started work, and even that was delivered on mag tape, by van. Fat bandwidth but lousy latency.
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My first job was by the local council using VAX equipment, very old school with big massive monitors. And keyboards that weighted a ton, I actually injured my ankle accidentally dropping one on it.
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