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06-30-2007, 09:23 AM
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Radical Centrist
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What the heck is electronic mail?
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06-30-2007, 10:13 AM
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When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Wow. That seems so...futuristic.
Probably won't catch on, though.
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06-30-2007, 11:02 AM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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Damn futuristic nonsense...I like my regular mail. Hell, when I was a kid, I had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to the post office...
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06-30-2007, 11:11 AM
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Professor
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I thought e-mail stood for electronic mail. Was this a 70's gig that never caught on?
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06-30-2007, 11:14 AM
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I can hear my ears
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we had that carpet in our den in 1977.
note the ashtray with cig butts on the desk.
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06-30-2007, 11:26 AM
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King Of Wishful Thinking
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Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
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Wow. This electronic mail thing sounds really cool. Where do I sign up?
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 ...and spam is just a canned meat.
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06-30-2007, 11:43 AM
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Your Bartender
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Location: Philly Burbs, PA
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It's ironic that Mr. Laurie Reeves didn't include his email address. Of course none of the potential customers could have used it, but it would still have been a bit of subtle encouragement to "get with the future."
LJ... in that era, it's surprising the cigs were in the ashtray instead of actually being smoked. |
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06-30-2007, 12:40 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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--Ghost Mail--
(Having just watched Ghost Rider). I think I'd be viewing that thing with some trepidation if I had to open it.
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06-30-2007, 01:39 PM
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Radical Centrist
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I looked it up SD; the idea of an email *address* was a little foreign, until RFC 720 (Aug 1976) formalized things like the @ symbol. (Instead of actually writing "at"!)
But that only applied to the ARPANet, which eventually matured to be the general-purpose Intarweb we all know and love. Honeywell would have been pushing its own proprietary email system on its own proprietary network. ARPANet eventually defined methods for exchanging email with non-ARPANet networks with RFC 754... In April 1979. |
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06-30-2007, 02:18 PM
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lobber of scimitars
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Xerox's computer division (Honeywell apparently took them over in the late 1970s_ used to have some great ads. You find a lot of these in old issues of Scientific American. .
I particularly loved the ones for the Sigma series of mainframe computers which actually announced things like specifications and release dates and met them.
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06-30-2007, 03:54 PM
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The future is unwritten
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06-30-2007, 07:47 PM
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still eats dirt
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In Finnish it's "miukumauku" meaning "the meow sign". |
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06-30-2007, 07:49 PM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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little doggie in Russian ...
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06-30-2007, 09:16 PM
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I can hear my ears
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Quote:
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07-01-2007, 12:04 AM
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Gone and done
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It's a cat with its tail all curled around it...
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