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Happy Birthday! Email Is 30 Years Old

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-trust-anyone-over-30-named-sircam dept.

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?"

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  1. Life without email by Hangtime · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  2. First email by Defender2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet the subject was "MAKE MONEY FAST"

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    ...I'll procrastinate tomorrow...
    1. Re:First email by Quizme2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

      Technology will always be embraced by idiots and burden geniuses.

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      "Get them before they get....
  3. Hi! How are you? by Carlos+Laviola · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

  4. email, the absurd history by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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"

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  5. 10 vs. 3-fingers by garoush · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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    Karma stuck at 50? Add 2-5 inches.. err.. 2-5x Karmas Count to your pen1es.. err.. Karma all naturally and private
  6. Re:the new yardstick by NonSequor · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.