Happy Birthday! Email Is 30 Years Old

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Happy Birthday! Email Is 30 Years Old

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 1, 2001 @01:39PM 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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fp? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 13:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

looks like an fp
Re:Life without email by Hangtime · 2001-10-01 13:49 · 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!
Happy Birthday, Trolling by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Trolling is 3000 years old today. Many Happy Returns!
1. Re:Happy Birthday, Trolling by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Did somebody say Anne Tomlinson?
Re:Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Jeez man, they were BROKERS get it? Those people are the worst.....besides 6000 people die every day across this great land of ours....get a life.
kazaa blocks gift!!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Sensing the ongoing increase of popularity of giFT, KaZaA has blocked all open-sourced attempts to connect to the FastTrack network used by KaZaA, Morpheus, and Grokster. More information here. For more about giFT, refer back to this slashdot article.

also, visit #gift on irc.openprojects.net for even more info
Re:Email. by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So, what is it going to be, what, another 30 years before SPAM IS FUCKING OUTLAWED. Jesus. When do we say "when"...
Re:Life without email by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It's likely that if you get that many of that kind of email, you are already suffering from the iHAVEnoSEXlife hex.

Mine goes to 0xG
Should I feed the trolls? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Or shouldn't I answer this post?
Re:Me too! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

no the message was "I WANT MY HUGE THROBBING COCK IN YOUR MOUTH RIGHT NOW. FEMALES NEED NOT APPLY"

heheheheh

dfsajdskasdgjdhsdgsahdsgakj
Re:Okay, here's my PRIORITIES! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Forget 5. Campaign to have Marijuana legalized instead!
Re:HEAR MY GNUHOLY WORDS NOW!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The * is the end of the dick. The ass is just to the right of it. (They're not having anal sex YET, but they're just about to)
Re:One question... by antdude · 2001-10-01 14:42 · 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).
Re:the first message by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Shut up.
Re:Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 14:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I am sure the untold starving millions around the world couldn't give a rats arse about spoiled american yuppies dying either...nor the millions who died as a result of america, or american clients states actions either...get some perspective yourself..or do you think the only news that should be reported is about the tragendy..everything else in the world has to stop?
+1 Funny on the MQR standard by MarkusQ · 2001-10-01 14:56 · Score: 1, Offtopic

*laugh*
Cute.
And not, dispite what someone seems to think, offtopic at all.
--MarkusQ
Re:Huh? by Sly+Mongoose · 2001-10-01 15:00 · 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.
Re:the new yardstick by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 15:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

that is some gay ass shit
Ray Tomlinson by Jeff+Probst · 2001-10-01 15:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In fact, Ray Tomlinson, the American engineer considered the father of e-mail
is Ray Tomlinson the father of Anne, the nice lady who was fired from slashdot earlier this year to be a scapegoat for otherwise incompentent staff?
1. Re:Ray Tomlinson by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 18:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Hey, whatever happened to Anne Tomlinson? I hope she got a better job. She deserves it.
2. Re:Ray Tomlinson by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-03 09:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I think she has permanent mod points and mods down anyone who mentions her.
Re:Me too! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 15:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I do not chew upon penises. Troll boi.
Re:You moron! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 15:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

lol. Witty.

I know it's a losing battle, but it keeps me from shooting up a post-office.
Re:E-mail! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 15:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

LOL
Re:You moron! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 15:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You mean its no use because language has it's own way of evolving?
Obfuscation contests are so cliche... by Wdomburg · 2001-10-02 01:03 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Why not do a readable Intercal contest instead?