That depends on where you worked. At Digital Equipment Corporation we had a world wide network and we argued over such things in something called VAXnotes starting around 1984.
“That depends on where you worked. At Digital Equipment Corporation we had a world wide network and we argued over such things in something called VAXnotes starting around 1984.”
I was, and to a large degree still am, a member of the great unwashed-flyover-country-bitter-gun-toting-clinger group. In 1988 I read the paper. I had already fallen out of love with Newsweek and Time and was growing suspicious of TV news. I recall channel flipping the big three, ABC, NBC and CBS for the same news story (I don’t recall which one) and the bias and editorial bent of the presentation slapped me in the face. I think I joined the internet about 1992(?)
Got 'cha beat by a decade. I was at GM, where we used DTSS (Dartmouth Time Sharing System). DTSS was a system using "high speed" phone lines and teletype machines, using a BASIC interpreter on the main "server". We would write "emails" around the world among GM units. the "emails" were BASIC "print" statements which would print out on the TTY anything that was stored as a BASIC program. We did this in 1974 to send messages and data.