I still remember the first time I heard the word "email." Two friends that worked for the city government were discussing an email they recieved from a supervisor. I remember asking, "what the hell is, what do you call it, E-M-A-I-L?"
I remember the comedy in class when Hotmail came out and nobody heard about it yet in school. The uncontrollable hilarity when the teacher announced he had a hot male on the Internet.
22 Comments
whimsy@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 322d
Next time someone asks about activitypub and fediverse
tang999@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 322d
I still remember the first time I heard the word "email." Two friends that worked for the city government were discussing an email they recieved from a supervisor. I remember asking, "what the hell is, what do you call it, E-M-A-I-L?"
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 322d
I remember the comedy in class when Hotmail came out and nobody heard about it yet in school. The uncontrollable hilarity when the teacher announced he had a hot male on the Internet.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 52d
Omg the silly japes
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
As opposed offline electronic mail.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 322d
Look, don't shame me for mailing my pen pal a kobo with the letter on it
dan1101@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 322d
We all had to learn somehow. Some of the Dummies books were pretty good.
jqubed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
How old is it?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 322d
The internet is over 20 years old and electronic mail is still in use today!
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 322d
I am not sure if you are joking but the Internet is significantly older than "over 20 years".
Valmond@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 322d
Yeah more like 50+.
The web, almost 40?
bigboitricky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
I no longer have email I just use my twitter dot com DMs like a cool guy 😤😤😤 (the IRS is still hunting me for sport)
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 322d
Nirvana, Alanis, new oasis album, biggie and Tupac got shot, kinda in there
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
I have a copy of the first edition of "The Internet for Dummies." It's worthless, just like the Internet.
bigboitricky@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 322d
It's just 400 pages and they all have one word: don't
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 322d
!nostalgia@lemmy.world
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 322d
Sorry. Need to check my handy style book, but E-Mail is probably most correct usage
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 1 pts · 322d
Not anymore
Valmond@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
What about that file transfer and encryption?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 3 pts · 322d
WinRAR's password and archive-splitting feature, I assume. 7-Zip was around since 1999 but not as popular.
folekaule@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
We had pgp and ftp in the 90s
Valmond@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
I mean from the books cover :-)