My Oldest Email Messages

  • 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.

2 Replies to “My Oldest Email Messages”

  1. 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

  2. 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

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