Back when 56k was a good day. Still have mine, though it's forwarded to something else.
Back when 56k was a good day. Still have mine, though it's forwarded to something else.
It really hasn't been that way since the dialup days. I used to have a mail .geis.com, but that was in what, 1994? Shortly after that when Yahoo and Hotmail became a thing, there was no need for the other stuff.
It really hasn't been that way since the dialup days. I used to have a mail @genie.geis.com, but that was in what, 1994? Shortly after that when Yahoo and Hotmail became a thing, there was no need for the other stuff.
Chatted on a program called CONFER and the email program was called MAIL and was your username, mine was A0S5107 given to me by an operator....
Chatted on a program called CONFER and the email program was called MAIL and was your username, mine was A0S5107 given to me by an operator....
I was using hotmail when it came out. Never used my ISP email although I had one
I was using hotmail when it came out. Never used my ISP email although I had one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoQJKTc3nM
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Although I do love you’re naive enough to think that people are tracked down with their mail server 😂
Noideawhatyouretalkingabout@compuserve.com
Although I do love you’re naive enough to think that people are tracked down with their mail server 😂
If you still have a compuserve email account, that gives you some street cred for being an early early adopter.
If you still have a compuserve email account, that gives you some street cred for being an early early adopter.
Pepperidge Farm remembers when internet was charged by the minute.
I once had a two foot high stack of AOL “free 500 minutes!” CDs
I gave half to my library to make a ‘What is a CD-ROM?’ display, even though the kids knew what a fucking CD was and it was the librarians that were clueless.
The dumbass librarian kicked me out because I used a pair of headphones in the headphone jack of the “Multimedia PC” saying the headphones “were untested” and I could “irreparably damage the Multimedia PC” by using them.
Multimedia meant it could run the videos off an Encarta ‘95 SEE DEE ROM
Silly cow.
Pepperidge Farm remembers when internet was charged by the minute.
I once had a two foot high stack of AOL “free 500 minutes!” CDs
I gave half to my library to make a ‘What is a CD-ROM?’ display, even though the kids knew what a fucking CD was and it was the librarians that were clueless.
The dumbass librarian kicked me out because I used a pair of headphones in the headphone jack of the “Multimedia PC” saying the headphones “were untested” and I could “irreparably damage the Multimedia PC” by using them.
Multimedia meant it could run the videos off an Encarta ‘95 SEE DEE ROM
Silly cow.
Those new-fangled digital thingies still escape some libraries.
Last time I checked my local dead tree repository, they still didn't have a computer system where you could search for books that were just in the local branch. All you could do was search across the entire metro area and hope they could locate the book at the branch in the hood.
Those new-fangled digital thingies still escape some libraries.
Last time I checked my local dead tree repository, they still didn't have a computer system where you could search for books that were just in the local branch. All you could do was search across the entire metro area and hope they could locate the book at the branch in the hood.
I once had a two foot high stack of AOL “free 500 minutes!” CDs
You are but a child -- I had a drawer full of floppies.
> I once had a two foot high stack of AOL “free 500 minutes!” CDs
You are but a child -- I had a drawer full of floppies.
FatFreddysFarm remembers when pirating a game meant typing the code in from a magazine photocopy. Then putting it on a music tape cassette to sell at school.
FatFreddysFarm remembers when pirating a game meant typing the code in from a magazine photocopy. Then putting it on a music tape cassette to sell at school.
>Independent email providers is one of the few thing that were done right, so today it's not so easy to track you down for average pieces of shit.
It was always a choice. As a subscriber, your ISP would provide you with one or more email addresses at no additional cost: but you weren't forced to use them. There were always other email providers available, as well as private solutions. Now most people seem to use Gmail which IMHO is an abomination. Google is constantly tracking you and even have been known to scan your email messages to target their marketing.
>>Independent email providers is one of the few thing that were done right, so today it's not so easy to track you down for average pieces of shit.
It was always a choice. As a subscriber, your ISP would provide you with one or more email addresses at no additional cost: but you weren't forced to use them. There were always other email providers available, as well as private solutions. Now most people seem to use Gmail which IMHO is an abomination. Google is constantly tracking you and even have been known to scan your email messages to target their marketing.
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