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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?"

6 of 383 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Life without email by Hangtime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course while your waiting printing for that pr0n you get to study for your university diploma from an accredited University somewhere in the middle of Madagascar! Thanks Email!

  2. Re:Okay, here's my PRIORITIES! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Forget 5. Campaign to have Marijuana legalized instead!

  3. Re:One question... by antdude · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    From what I understand, it doesn't matter as long as you keep the word consistent. For example, Web vs. web. If you are going to use Web (capital W), then keep using that on the whole Web site. :)

    --
    Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
  4. +1 Funny on the MQR standard by MarkusQ · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    *laugh*

    Cute.

    And not, dispite what someone seems to think, offtopic at all.

    --MarkusQ

  5. Re:Huh? by Sly+Mongoose · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    What percentage of dial-up accounts hit 56.6? In my experience the phone lines will rarely support anything over 33.6 or even as low as 28.8. Just because the modem is rated for 56.6 doesn't mean it is practicly standard.
    First, I think modern modems are rated at 57.6 not 56.6!

    Second, I understand there is some legal limit around 53 but I've never hit that mark. I get 50.666 almost every time with 49.333 very occasionally. Everyone else I know also hits 50.666 fairly consistantly, with an occasional 49.333 like myself.
  6. Obfuscation contests are so cliche... by Wdomburg · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why not do a readable Intercal contest instead?