[ale] When I was young

[Geoffrey]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 16:23 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> Hmmm, I thought the e-mail was when I was young.
> 
> We had email.  If you would call it that.  Problem was it was slow.  I
> would send you an email today and you would receive it tomorrow.  You
> would reply but I would receive it on Friday.  Just better to call you
> on the phone.
> 
> This was called fidonet :)

When in my early years at AT&T, we were still doing email via uucp. 
Send email to someone with an address like:

machine1!machine2!machine3!......

Hope that each machine passed it on... :)

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Until later, Geoffrey

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