[ale] When I was young

Tom Freeman tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Wed Aug 18 21:44:23 EDT 2010


I have a cousin who was active on uunet about 1980. The only thing
I remember about that was that the addresses got seriously _ugly_.


On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Chris Fowler wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 16:23 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> Hmmm, I thought the e-mail was when I was young.
>
> We had email.  If you would call it that.  Problem was it was slow.  I
> would send you an email today and you would receive it tomorrow.  You
> would reply but I would receive it on Friday.  Just better to call you
> on the phone.
>
> This was called fidonet :)
>
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