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Happy Birthday! Email Is 30 Years Old
pgrote writes: "Happy Birthday Email! It turns 30 and Yahoo! News has an article here. Of course, they have the @ sign listed as a + sign. There is an interesting look at the history here. Two neat things about this: 1) The creator can't remember the first message, but he knows it was in ALL CAPS and 2) Can you imagine your life without email now?"
Happy birthday email!
Before email I never knew there were so many women interested in showing me their tata's with such snappy come-ons as "We are all 18....and horny!" Who would ever have thought it! Me of all people would have women fawning over me like that and all thanks to email!
HT
I bet the subject was "MAKE MONEY FAST"
...I'll procrastinate tomorrow...
Was the second one Make Money Fast! with QWERTYUIOP! ?
We'd never know that "I Love You" ;-)
We'd probably have a new 'Outlook'!
Ahh.. I think I could do without that crap anyway.....
Just think in all that time the RFC are still not implemented with any security in mind.
HELO
FROM: bill@microsoft.com
RCPT TO:you@friend.com
DATA
blah blah blah....
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QUIT
NOOP
NOOP
Only 'flamers' flame!
Umm, you know that telemarketers try to call during dinner?
My brother used to be a telemarketer... He quit the day after he called me and asked if I wanted long distance, because I smacked him around when he got home.
So climate's changing. So what? It has always changed. The big news would be if it wasn't changing. - Dr. Philip Stone
"FIRST POST!"
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later! Thanks
Attachment #1 -- me&judy.jpg.vbs
"Mr. Watson--Come here--I want to see you."
"Yes Mr. Tomlinson?"
"Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice. See you later. Thanks"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
1) Refinance my mortgage
2) Get some HOT TEENAGE SLUTS
3) Buy printer cartriges
4) Take a free vaction to Orlando, Florida
5) Get a Legal Marijuana Alternative
6) Boost my windows reliability
7) Make my penis bigger
8) Become wealthy working at home
9) Have a personal relationship with God
10) Say HI! to Dan. He has some HOT TEENAGER SLUTS for me.
After all, if there wasn't email, how could I get PRIORITIES?
With email, I get to exercise ALL of my 10 fingers. While with pen-based-mail only 3 get used -- and some use only 2 fingers.
I keep wandering how our parents managed life with only 2-3 fingers; must have been very boring. So what were they doing with the "other" hand?
Karma stuck at 50? Add 2-5 inches.. err.. 2-5x Karmas Count to your pen1es.. err.. Karma all naturally and private
ALL CAPS? I didn't think AOL was around in the 70's.
How can you be 26 and remember Ronald Reagan as a very young child?
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
Happy Birthday Email!! ILOVEYOU! I send you this file in order to have your advice. It contains information about how to make $100,000 per month, no risk! That's right, obtain a prosperous future with a college diploma for only $99!
"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Thomas Edison
The standard general answer to this question is that Brazilian women won't have sex with a man unless they are in love. However, they sometimes fall in love very quickly.
The specific answer is no. My problem is staying out of women's pants, not getting in.
Bush's education improvements were
Give up, dude. Its a loosing battle. There never going to get it. Your wasting you're time.
...wearing a skin-tight topless leather jumpsuit, with cutaway buttocks and transparent crotch panel.
The original message was HELL STARTS HERE.
Hell, back in the late 80s and early 90s they used to have the "@-Party" at the World Science Fiction Convention. All you needed was an e-mail address to get in. Even at this convocation of self-selected, very geeky people filling several hotels, all the "internet people" were able to party in one hotel suite. I remember meeting Cliff Stoll (before he went all curmugonly) and ESR was hawking his fresh-off-the-press "The New Hacker's Dictionary".
Someone even put instructions on how to crash the @-Party on one of the (physical) bulletin boards. They had printed things like "yourname@domain.com" and people came up to the door claiming that their e-mail address was yourname@domain.com. They didn't get in.
"How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" Charles Crumb
Is it
emai-l (the Japanese porn star from Star Trek)
ema-il (verb meaning "oozing from a French guy")
em-ail (Ebonics for "they are sick")
or
e-mail? (some special kind of mail)
I wonder. If only I had more information....
Your mouth is like Columbus Day.
The hassle of typing combined with the intrusion of a phone call. No thanks.
Isn't it extermely funny that this gets moderated as "informative"?
...then the first reply must have been;
Stop shouting!
Cat.