"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.
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 network. But first, he has to get a phone connection going using, what else, a huge rotary telephone Read more...
03-12-2016, 09:56 PM
This is how hard it was to send email in 1984
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