I had email in 1984.
In 1984, I had one of the original Osborne 1 computers, with an external monitor (there were only 300 of them made!). It had a modem which we could never get to work. I upgraded from that to an Osborne Executive, then a Zenith which had a whopping big 10MB hard drive (you read that right, folks, 10MB). I think I had email on the Zenith, through compuserve. Remember those email addresses? Something like
[email protected]. "Real" email didn't really kick in until 1991 when I started working at the Muskie School at USM and I had such a nice, simple address:
[email protected]Of course, this has nothing to do with E&E--please forgive my walk down computer memory lane, I just like to reminisce.
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