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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. Re:Forget the diploma by Trinn · · Score: 0, Troll

    Forgot the 'se'.
    It should have been resume_goatse.cx
    Just thought I'd let you know
    Extra text brought to you by the postercomment compression filter
    Or some other lameness filter
    ___________________________________________me
    Well, who else would be signing my posts?