| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? 12:09 - Dec 15 with 874 views | Illinoisblue |
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Would have been 95 or 96 for me I think. |  |
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| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 12:11 - Dec 15 with 849 views | WD19 |
Autumn of 1995 when I went to University. |  | | |
| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 12:37 - Dec 15 with 777 views | Keno |
oh good question
I worked for an insurance company that in 1990 had an internal mail system called "Host" that may have just been a glorified text message service.
I would guess proper Interweb email would be 92/93 |  |
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| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 12:41 - Dec 15 with 753 views | ITFC_Forever |
Same, at uni and in the third year, so must have been 95-96.
Can remember the first websites listed in the likes of FHM - they were all computer code to get to a sketchy picture of Gillian Anderson. |  |
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| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 13:08 - Dec 15 with 706 views | Basuco |
April 95 for me, I changed jobs and Emails became an every day thing. |  | | |
| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 13:17 - Dec 15 with 661 views | gainsboroughblue |
Probably around 2001. On a ntl set top box with a cumbersome keyboard. Plain text, no ability to send images or links!
I was late to the party for most tech related things. It was the year before that, I finally relented and got a mobile phone and I was almost 30 before I got a PC. |  |
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| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 13:18 - Dec 15 with 661 views | bluelagos |
So I started work proper in Sept 92 and we defo had our own computers, but know they didn't have the internet. They had two internet connected computers in the dining room that we could use for surfing at lunch time.
Reckon email would have come in fairly soon after I started, wouldn't get a personal one for a few years yet.
I do remember using the fax and having some muppet put the wrong number in. They would redial every few minutes so you could quite easily get a call from a fax machine every 5 mins for a whole day. Learned to phone the other offices if this was happening - to check they put the right number in...
Also - had a pager - which would beep meaning that I had a message to pick up. No mobile phone for me til '99 - and that was a brick. But I could sit in Germany (where I was working) - dial into the mainframe system and do an email update (out and in) but also could surf too.
So I genuinely had mobile internet coverage (on my laptop) from 99 that was quite cutting edge at the time. |  |
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| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 13:39 - Dec 15 with 628 views | EJP |
1989 - as a 16 year old starting my first job as a trainee IBM AS/400 operator.
My first proper personal e-mail address was megamelt@aol.com (care of my liking of the Megamelt sandwich at Dennys) in 1995.
And i got into GMail quick enough to have my actual name as my e-mail address! |  | | |
| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 14:42 - Dec 15 with 562 views | Illinoisblue |
| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 13:39 - Dec 15 by EJP |
1989 - as a 16 year old starting my first job as a trainee IBM AS/400 operator.
My first proper personal e-mail address was megamelt@aol.com (care of my liking of the Megamelt sandwich at Dennys) in 1995.
And i got into GMail quick enough to have my actual name as my e-mail address! |
+1 for megamelt name! | |
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| Derby game distraction thread - when did you send your first email? on 14:51 - Dec 15 with 549 views | RobTheMonk |
I can remember being about 13 and being in MSN messenger with people who played Delta Force 2. Would email them from time to time with regards to setting up an online squad haha!
My Mum spoke to them once over voice chat and thought I was playing with 'a bunch of paedos' as they were calling me 'Sexy Bob'. I had to explain to her that that was my in game name hahaha! [Post edited 15 Dec 2023 14:51]
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