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packman

(16,296 posts) Fri Mar 18, 2016, 12:44 PM Mar 2016

1984 - Sending an e-mail

Ah, the good old days --- Remember how you spent hours/days/weeks learning a system - what a glorious waste of time.

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1984 - Sending an e-mail (Original Post) packman Mar 2016 OP

Remember when you used to have to know someone's "bang path" to send an email? PoliticAverse Mar 2016 #1

Oh boy sharp_stick Mar 2016 #2

Hahaha. Was his personal password, QWERT? progressoid Mar 2016 #3

Crazy hibbing Mar 2016 #4

My first computer class went way too far in teaching us lunatica Mar 2016 #5

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. Remember when you used to have to know someone's "bang path" to send an email?

Reply to packman (Original post)

Fri Mar 18, 2016, 12:50 PM

Mar 2016

No? Consider yourself lucky.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)

2. Oh boy

Reply to packman (Original post)

Fri Mar 18, 2016, 12:53 PM

Mar 2016

transmitting software over the TV. I remember how expensive those old computers used to be. When they had to set up a CoOp to buy one it made me laugh.

progressoid

(49,951 posts)

3. Hahaha. Was his personal password, QWERT?

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Fri Mar 18, 2016, 01:03 PM

Mar 2016

hibbing

(10,095 posts)

4. Crazy

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Fri Mar 18, 2016, 01:14 PM

Mar 2016

I wasn't doing that but was online pretty soon after this I think. Dial up modem and telnetting into a university system.

Peace

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

5. My first computer class went way too far in teaching us

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Fri Mar 18, 2016, 04:41 PM

Mar 2016

We just wanted to know how to use it, you know, like learning to drive. No. We had to learn all about what ran the computer. It was like having to learn to be a mechanic in order to learn to drive.

Even at the time I thought that was stupid.

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