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?"

Comments

Life without email

[Hangtime]

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

Re:Life without email

[grammar nazi]

And I never would have learned of the wonder benefits of Viagra and Printer Cartridges!!

Now I can keep it "up" for as long the inkjet keeps printing pr0n... and that's a long time thanks to email!

First email

[Defender2000]

I bet the subject was "MAKE MONEY FAST"

Re:First email

[Quizme2000]

Mine was..."TEST:Contact the administrator if you did not get this message".

Technology will always be embraced by idiots and burden geniuses.

Hi! How are you?

[Carlos Laviola]

I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later! Thanks

Attachment #1 -- me&judy.jpg.vbs

email, the absurd history

[circletimessquare]

"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"

10 vs. 3-fingers

[garoush]

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?

Re:the new yardstick

[NonSequor]

How can you be 26 and remember Ronald Reagan as a very young child?

Happy BDay!

[MathJMendl]

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 the opposite problem.

[Futurepower(tm)]

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.

Re:The 100th monkey theory

[K8Fan]

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.