Too funny…. People in 1994 looking at an email address for the first time

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I worked at a fiber optic company in Tulsa in 1994. I was walking through the cubes and a guy was looking at the Playboy website and was telling coworkers to check out what he found on the internet.

The director told all the employees that if she caught them playing games on the net she would fire them.

By about 1998 I was querying terabytes of data with in house software that would take a day to return results. That was amazing at the time.
 
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Daytime network idiots. I'm old but even then I knew what the internet was. Communicating long distances without long distance fees? My parents and I talked over email several times a day for free. It was a huge money saver at the time.
Also the old days of FTP servers having every program you ever wanted, any song you ever wanted, bulletin boards with vast amounts of knowledge (unrestricted). Those were the days.
 

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I connected in the early 80’s via 300 baud. My first computer was a TI16 followed up by the Commodore 64 (sp?). I was thinking how much more memory does one need🤣

I stared working on these toys in 1984 (DOS 2.0, XT computer with maybe 128k ram, no hard drive as it booted from floppy🤣
I remember those DOS days and welcomed Windows 3.1 with a fervor. Comms wasn't that good through the Windows system so we went back to the DOS environment just for comms.

I was an LV tech in 1998 and working at Boeing taking a day long download on an access control panel over 1200 BAUD. That was cooking at the time and the dial up was from Seatle WA to Tinker. After three 8 hour sessions, it finally worked. We were almost to the point where I was to remove the control panel and ship it back to Seatle for a download.


Daytime network idiots. I'm old but even then I knew what the internet was. Communicating long distances without long distance fees? My parents and I talked over email several times a day for free. It was a huge money saver at the time.
Also the old days of FTP servers having every program you ever wanted, any song you ever wanted, bulletin boards with vast amounts of knowledge (unrestricted). Those were the days.
Until the bad people in this world showed us we couldn't trust anyone or anything.
 

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My wife is a accountant (RetiredNow) back when she started working with computers they used punch cards.
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Until the bad people in this world showed us we couldn't trust anyone or anything.
Speaking of bad people, back then you could install Symantec (Norton) PC Anywhere (remote access to your computer from anywhere) and do an open search on the internet. HUNDREDS of people had it installed with NO password required. You could go through computers one after another and turn on people's webcams (early 2000s), see their taxes, see their pictures and videos (the rich ones), and pop their CD tray open and closed. It was crazy. 🤣

As for the software, we found that most of the software on the big FTP servers was 100% legit. The only times you ran a risk of spyware (usually email relays) was if you got stuff from russia or taiwan, or some small no-name place.
 

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Speaking of email, has anyone else been having problems with outlook and hotmail today? My last incoming message was the 22nd of December for some reason. I was emailing all day yesterday. Nothing is showing up except a required verification of my email information which I deleted as spam.
 

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