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03-12-2016, 09:56 PM
This is how hard it was to send email in 1984
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"I see you have your computer linked to the telephone line, can you tell us how you did that?"
Those are the words of a Thames TV host back in 1984 explaining the first steps needed to send an email before most people even knew what email was. Even for long-time Internet users, the imagery in the video is pretty amazing.
See also: Creator of modern email, Ray Tomlinson, dies at 74 (http://mashable.com/2016/03/06/inventor-email-ray-tomlinson-dead/)
The video (above), posted just a couple of weeks ago, shows a bespectacled early Paleolithic era nerd firing up massive modem (a Mi**r Miracles WS2000) to connect his microcomputer computer to the Prestel (http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n5/123_A_users_view_of_Prestel.php) network. But first, he has to get a phone connection going using, what else, a huge rotary telephone Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/email-in-the-80s/)
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"I see you have your computer linked to the telephone line, can you tell us how you did that?"
Those are the words of a Thames TV host back in 1984 explaining the first steps needed to send an email before most people even knew what email was. Even for long-time Internet users, the imagery in the video is pretty amazing.
See also: Creator of modern email, Ray Tomlinson, dies at 74 (http://mashable.com/2016/03/06/inventor-email-ray-tomlinson-dead/)
The video (above), posted just a couple of weeks ago, shows a bespectacled early Paleolithic era nerd firing up massive modem (a Mi**r Miracles WS2000) to connect his microcomputer computer to the Prestel (http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n5/123_A_users_view_of_Prestel.php) network. But first, he has to get a phone connection going using, what else, a huge rotary telephone Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/email-in-the-80s/)
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