I found back one of my earliest mail messages: it is dated back in februari 1989.
Wow – ain’t search engines nice!
Today, messages like those seem totally irrelevant.
But back then, getting in touch with other people through email could be a real challenge.
The internet was forming (out of UUNET, DECnet, BITNET, Usenet, EARN, ARPANET and others), and not everything was completely interconnected yet, let alone connected on-line 24/7.
For instance, newsgroups were limited to the usenet portion of the internet, and not available on the bitnet portion. Read the rest of this entry »
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