Recently Unearthed E-Mail Reveals What Life Was Like In 1995

[dbdg]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48970

[Sasq]

ya know that made me laugh and cry.
back in '94 my email address was yeti@world.com

amazing how times change

[ZokesPro]

I guess if you look at it froma technology point of view, 1995 is way back when. None the less, talking about 1995 as if it was ancient history is kinda funny.

My hotmail address dates back to about 1995. Too bad I don't have any of my original emails to confirm. But I know for sure that I created it about 8 to 9 years ago.

[Jammrock]

I don't even remember my first email address. Though my second one started with Jammrock

[Jon P. Inghram]

I can still dig up some old posts of mine on Google groups dating back to 1994 from when I was posting to newsgroups via Fidonet on my Amiga 1200.

[az]

I don't know if I knew what the internet was in '95. I know I went online in '97 (or was it '96, at a friend's PC with free AOL minutes? I'll never forget those sweet modem dialing tones.)

[High_Jumbllama]

I didn't even know it existed until someone came into the computer lab and asked me in late 95. I was the lab assistant. Doh!

[Jon P. Inghram]

Oh, and before the internet of course there was BBS's. My 9/1 Mbps cable seems cheap by comparison, I accidentally ran up a $300 phone bill one time.

[Dr Mordrid]

PLEASE don't remind me about BBS's & having 15-20 phone lines in one house

Dr. Mordrid

[GNEP]

I think my email addy back then was u95gnp@eng.ox.ac.uk - before the days when they had worked out that actualy name.name@dept.ox.ac.uk might be more useful Accessed it with telnet from sun sparcstations and used pine And Netscape 2 for lots of pages of black times new roman print on grey backgrounds and blue links...

Edit: Actually on second thoughts it was ecs.ox.ac.uk (for engineering computing services) - eng. would've been far too intuitive!

[agallag]

My university address was my student number @muss.cis.mcmaster.ca. Glad I didn't have to keep that address. I got it in 1993, my first year at uni. I used my brother's connection for a full year before that, and BBSs for many years too. I didn't actually get on "the web" until about 1995, only had shell access until then.

I guess my first time online though, was when I dialed in to the local library's card catalogue system in about 1985-86ish. I was using a 300 baud "pocket modem" that plugged into the cartridge slot on the back of my C64.

[Dr Mordrid]

I was using a 300 baud "pocket modem" that plugged into the cartridge slot on the back of my C64.

Don't remind me of that either

Dr. Mordrid