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Title: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Clive on October 31, 2010, 19:29
Forty-one years ago today, a pair of computer scientists tried to send the world's first computer-to-computer message via the internet. The message was to be the word "log." Their connection crashed before they got to "g."

LINK (http://gawker.com/5676691/the-day-e+mail-was-invented)
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Simon on October 31, 2010, 19:50
One of them was probably Rik!  ;D
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Clive on October 31, 2010, 21:02
 :arf:
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Rik on November 01, 2010, 10:59
 :wahh: ;D

I didn't get my first email account until 1984.  ;)
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Simon on November 01, 2010, 11:36
A late developer, then.  :)x
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Rik on November 01, 2010, 11:54
Yes, a mere child. ;D
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: sam on November 01, 2010, 13:03
Quote from: Rik on November 01, 2010, 11:54
Yes, a mere child. ;D

No, I was the mere child in 1984.
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Simon on November 01, 2010, 13:09
;D
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Rik on November 01, 2010, 15:54
Quote from: sam on November 01, 2010, 13:03
No, I was the mere child in 1984.

Relative to where I am now, Sam, so was I. ;)
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Clive on November 01, 2010, 17:21
Quote from: sam on November 01, 2010, 13:03
No, I was the mere child in 1984.

Nobody likes a show-off Sam.   ;D
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: Rik on November 01, 2010, 17:35
 :laugh:
Title: Re: The first e-mail was sent 41 years ago today.
Post by: sam on November 02, 2010, 12:32
lol