How to Use Email (in 1997)
http://mentalfloss.com/article/49762/how-use-email-1997
“My favorite part of this episode is the then-revolutionary concept that you could access email (specifically Hotmail) via a web browser. “Even attachments show up!” says Sabeer Bhatia, explaining the service. The service allowed up to 200k of attachments per email, but suggested that in the future “files of a larger size” could be attached. Second favorite is the exceptionally long wait as the JFAX program downloads GSM-encoded voicemail files via a POP connection. It’s excruciating watching the hosts wait, but boy, I spent a lot of time waiting for my email in 1997.
Keep an eye out for “How to Defeat a Chain Letter” and “Don’t Spread that Hoax!” around 21:00. I’ll need to forward that to everybody I know.”
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Looking forward to the next installments as well. Especially on “Don’t spread a Hoax”. 🙂
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