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This kid swooped in, dropped off that electronic letter, and then zipped off to catch the Magic School Bus.
Those were the times, earning some pocket money by delivering email on my skeyboard.
Can’t count how many times I almost got run over on the information superhighway.You gotta use protection when you surf the Information Superhighway, and especially when you join chat rooms. That’s how I avoided ASL before it affected me or ran me over, I think. Install McAfee for free with your computer, and make sure you have all the correct toolbars installed in your Internet Explorer web browser.
Whenever I downloaded sketchy stuff, my mom protected me with the pull-out method.
Skamtebord
I don’t get it.
Edit: Oh, OK. It’s a 5 year old reddit joke.
I rember! 🤠
I remember answering the stupidest questions about it.
I remember some dumb ass in a meeting was trying to sound smart, so instead of saying E-mail like a regular person he said electronical mail… That guy annoyed me a lot.
I miss those days. It was a lot of fun in some ways. One company rolled out their own listserv and told everyone it was fool proof. I signed it up to itself and it crashed when the hard drive got full. They had the messages in plaintext with nested sub directories. It locked that file system up better than a fork bomb. I guess in a way it was a fork bomb.
Got any fun examples?
What if I get someone’s email by mistake? How do I deliver it to them?
Will I get a huge bill from the post office for not attaching a stamp? This lady thought she was going to go to jail.
What if I need to send a notarized email?
These are remembered because the people were quite distressed and not really well balanced.
What if I need to send a notarized email?
Germany actually tried to make that a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-MailSeveral aspects of the law have sparked criticism of the system.
- Communication between De-Mail and regular email addresses is not possible.
- End-to-end encryption is not mandatory.
- The data provided during the identification process for the account creation is centrally stored and available to the authorities.
I vaguely remember this and we laughed about it. It was like the wild west on the net.
I remember all the exploits that were used for nothing more than pranking. Today they would be used to take peoples money Tierdrop and winnuke and all kinds of packets of death you could use to knock someone off the net or just reboot them.
IRC was the chat of the day and I once cleared the opper and admin channel on I think it was Undernet with an exploit and filled it with eggdrop bots named the same as some of the oppers. It may have been another network I was a opper on. Newnet maybe? Not long after that channel services were fully implemented and that became a lot harder to do.
Edit: Oh, I noticed the 2008 date for your link. I’m pretty sure they were not the first to try that.
I wish I could have worked a day in the offices in the 1960s-70s. before all the technological changes.
It’s always a little wild to me to look at pre-computer offices, especially to think how tedious some tasks would’ve been when done by hand on paper
I mean, there is lot of tedium invented in the computer era as well, especially with paper-oriented digital workflow and WYSIWYG software.
Well back then they got paid more money to create less shareholder value, so it was okay to be that slow. These days we produce so much more wealth for billionaires, and we have to hustle to do it
Yup, but also remember: “tedious” = “relaxed pace”.
We make things less tedious to get more efficiency out of our time. But the asymptote of the efficiency curve is living death.
I suspect the desk telephone must have done a lot more of the heavy lifting back in those days
Just imagine: Spreadsheets existed before Excel.
By the way, a great movie to show that type of work is The Day The Earth Caught Fire.
