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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. Hello. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you sell cheese here? Thank you.

  2. Tomlinson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Anne's dad, right?

    Oh, first post too, mofo.

  3. 2nd Anne Tomlinson Post!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dammit you beat me to it.

  4. Age of SPAM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder when someone's going to announce the anniversary of the first Spam email?

  5. Too bad it's almost unusable now. by dorker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Personal email is getting so bad now with all the spam. Don't even think about using a free webmail service either. The only reason I have a hotmail account is so I can use Messenger. PLEASE STOP THE SPAM!

  6. I want dick cheese & lots of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What are you waiting for???

  7. 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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  8. Email's not the only birthday today. by thetechweenie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Happy Birthday, to me! 22 doesn't seem as exciting as last year. Well, from what I remember of last year anyway...

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    1. Re:Email's not the only birthday today. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Let me be the first to say, Happy Birthday to you!

  9. Re:Email must be royal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We are getting old fast.

    there have been a lot of birtday on /. lately

    leuk_he

  10. 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... >=)

  11. 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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