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In reply to the discussion: How to send an "E mail" 1984 [View all]jimlup
(7,968 posts)4. I was a physics Grad Student at the time
I've been using "email" since '79 but it wasn't internet - it was local to a VAX mainframe so you could only email people who also used that mainframe.
My mentor used his first name as his password because he didn't like having to type it in. His name was Ed but his password was ed.
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Fortunately it was for a short time as part of a university course
The Velveteen Ocelot
Apr 2018
#40
I was at SIGGRAPH '83 when Steve Jobs introduced "Lisa" (for the bargain prices of $10,000)
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2018
#16