JERRY: What are you, a scientist?!
NINA: Ah, I gotta go.
JERRY: Ah.
NINA: It's great talkin'
JERRY: Great talkin' to you. (Nina leaves. To himself) What the hell is e-mail?
Posted on 10/29/2019 8:08:54 AM PDT by ShadowAce
The Senior Manager who hired me in my Program and Project Management position at MCI had worked for Vint Cerf, The Father of TCP/IP, when he was developing MCI Mail. She had some great stories to tell. I had worked before then as the senior maintenance technician in Atlanta and was using MCI Mail in 1983.
Thanks for the history. I remember seeing one of the Arpenet nodes while at Gunter AFS in the mid 70s. A little DEC PDP-something-or-other, with lots of blinking lights on the front.
The equivalent of “Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.”, on 3/10/1876.
The second message on the net was sent by a Nigerian prince.
According to his wiki bio at this moment Al Gore was either at Fort Dix N.J. ending his basic training or assigned to Fort Rucker Alabama as a journalist. I’d post that stupid photo of him looking down the barrel of his rifle but its been done so often on FR it needs a rest. He had enlisted so as to avoid an issue for his father’s upcoming political campaign and was actually anti war by that point.
We still do it here on FR. Are you logged in? :)
For a while, I worked at a sales office for MCI as their one and only nerd, and they had a grand total of one PC for all the sales guys. I wrote them a script to pull their mail, as a DOS batch file, of all things. OMG we were primitive back then.
It’ll never catch on. Ordinary people using computers? No way.
I retired after 31 years from MCI dba Verizon Business. You know, MCI still exists legally in the Delaware incorporation papers.
I would argue that until TCP/IP was created in 1970, the Internet was not yet created.
I room 3421 the first xxx website was created.
They still have the original moth that short circuited the mega computer that was built with vacuum tubes.
I believe the first message on that printer is from a young Humblegunner.
It says “Get a job, blogpimp!”
JERRY: What are you, a scientist?!
NINA: Ah, I gotta go.
JERRY: Ah.
NINA: It's great talkin'
JERRY: Great talkin' to you. (Nina leaves. To himself) What the hell is e-mail?
Very Cool. Thank you for this post.
I would say it was when ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP/IP in 1983 that the modern internet was born.
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Nor Ali McGraw neither, dern it.
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