{"id":2273,"date":"2016-03-13T01:58:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/13\/this-is-how-hard-it-was-to-send-email-in-1984\/"},"modified":"2016-03-13T01:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T17:58:16","slug":"this-is-how-hard-it-was-to-send-email-in-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/13\/this-is-how-hard-it-was-to-send-email-in-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how hard it was to send email in 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I see you have your computer linked to the telephone line, can you tell us how you did that?”<\/p>\n

Those are the words of a Thames TV host back in 1984 explaining the first steps needed to send an email before most people even knew what email was. Even for long-time Internet users, the imagery in the video is pretty amazing.<\/p>\n

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See also: Creator of modern email, Ray Tomlinson, dies at 74<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The video (above), posted just a couple of weeks ago, shows a bespectacled early Paleolithic era nerd firing up massive modem (a Minor Miracles WS2000) to connect his microcomputer computer to the Prestel<\/a> network. But first, he has to get a phone connection going using, what else, a huge rotary telephone Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Uk<\/a>, Email<\/a>, Software<\/a>, History<\/a>, and Computer History<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I see you have your computer linked to the telephone line, can you tell us how you did that?” Those are the words of a Thames TV host back in 1984 explaining the first steps needed to send an email … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1564,1563,874,1260,760],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-computer-history","tag-email","tag-history","tag-software","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}