[ih] The Atlantic on Email

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 12/01/2016 04:52, John Day wrote:
> Agree with Noel, it was widely used within the ARPANET . . . almost immediately as I remember.

Not to mention the uucp world, and email over rscs became very big between IBM mainframes
in academia. So the meme spread well before there was a real Internet.

    Brian

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> You have to wonder about a historian who can’t interpret the historical record in context.
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>> On Jan 11, 2016, at 10:34, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
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>>> From: Joly MacFie
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>>> At first, email was useful, but it wasn't widely used
>>
>> Probably worth noting that that was because the number of people who had
>> access to it was limited; not that many people had ARPANet access. Among that
>> group, though, it was pretty widely used; it was pretty much the original
>> 'killer app'.
>>
>> 	Noel
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