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This is how hard it was to send email in 1984
This is how hard it was to send email in 1984
   "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 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... More about Uk, Email, Software, History, and Computer History 
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