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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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all caps by InferiorFloater · 2001-10-01 13:44 · Score: 1, Redundant

that's funny, I get lots of messages in ALL CAPS that I can't seem to recall. But I do know the gist was something like:

HOT HOT HOT TEEN SLUTS WAITING FOR YOU

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Get back to me when my brain starts working.
I send you this file in order to have your advice by mini+me · 2001-10-01 14:03 · Score: 1, Redundant

Happy Birthday.gif.exe
the first message by braque · 2001-10-01 14:33 · Score: 0, Redundant

The first message was something like:

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
Ray Tomlinson by sulli · 2001-10-01 18:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

Any relation to Anne?

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RTFJ.