- ISP (from my local mail archive at home):
- Date: February 1, 1998
- Subject: a Vocaltec Internet Phone license I got as a gift from my now-deceased Canadian relative. Using this software we had a lot of enjoyable video conversations over the Internet. I also found a lot of stories he sent me over time.
- Hotmail:
- Date: March 16, 1999
- Subject: registration confirmation from Serials 99. I believe I can still use it :)
- Yahoo!:
- Date: October 2, 2003
- Subject: a message from an old acquaintance who found me online. This is from the short period of time in my life when I tried to switch from Hotmail to Yahoo! Mail. Once I got a Gmail account, I ditched Yahoo! Mail for it.
- Gmail:
- Date: August 11, 2004
- Subject: “welcome to Gmail” message explaining how Gmail is different
I’m an Internet dinosaur.
I remember :
1. getting a “we celebrate the 100,000th Hotmail member” email.
2. using a 14k modem to access a university server that had internet access.
oh, I also played doom 2 in co-op mode over 28k modem
that’s enough. you get the point
100,000… that’s before MS bought them :)
(the kids today don’t even know that part of history)
I remember a friend coming over to show me how to get on IRC in the university and talk to other people. In Israel the word “mirc” is often used as a substitute for the word IRC because mIRC was the most popular client :)
I remember playing Descent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(computer_game) ) over the network (not the Internet) when I worked for a video game company. That was cool! And my buddy from work was a very famous BBS owner nicknamed RadioGlow (I don’t remember his real name)
Not only I’m a dinosaur. I’m a geeky one as well :S