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Email Turns Thirty

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-money-fast dept.

milquetoast writes: "The NYTimes has an article on e-mail's 30th birthday. where would we be without it?" Wearing out a lot fewer delete keys, that's where. The NYT also has an interview with Tomlinson, and a speculative article suggesting email will kill the fax machine (not any time soon). Tomlinson may think he gets a lot of email, but he doesn't.

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  1. Be careful. by PigeonGB · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Asking for a mirror to an article not only mods you offtopic for some reason, but gets you flames from people who think you can just willy nilly register for all sorts of sites.

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  2. Is he related to Anne??? by whydna · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    anybody remember Anne Tomlinson?? The (imaginary??) girl that caused big problems with slashdot a few months back?? Wonder if there's any relation... >=)

  3. Re:Look out for the ersatz intelligentsia by gowen · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Emails sent daily outnumber faxes by at least a factor of one hundred thousand
    Congratulations! You have won today's "George W. Bush Utterly Spurious and Clearly-Made-Up-On-The-Spot Statistic of the Week" award!
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