18 Jul
2008
18 Jul
'08
3:31 p.m.
> And hey, I was sending "email" via
university systems back in the mid
> to late 70's too, but that's not what we call "email" today.
It wasn't? We called in email in the 1980s
What difference do YOU consider important?
Spam? (howzbout DEC product announcement? (5/2/1978 according to
Stefferud); it and the responses sure looked like email to me)
"ransom-note" abuse of fonts?
dancing kangaroos?
Microsoft Outhouse?
> there wasn't TCP then, at least where I was
(It was Dec-net and PAX).
Is THAT how you are defining email?
(What were the dates for TCP/IP?)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com