What I love about this is Brandi’s comment about email. That’s exactly the type of things I heard back in the day when email started hitting the masses.
I remember the first time I got a demonstration of a E-mail system. It was at a Texas Instruments plant, and they had a email system that allowed them to send a mail to anyone in the company who had an account. All mail was routed through the mail server at HQ, I think it was in Dallas, even from abroad.
As I remember it the adress was not the easiest format I’ve ever seen and a far cry from the mail addresses we are used to today. At least it was easier than what they used at IBM at the time, where you had to know the IP address (not sure they used TCP/IP, it might have been a precursor) of the server where the recipient had the account. Clunky as it might seem at times the current system using DNS, SMTP and POP and/or IMAP is way simpler for the users.
now we know how they were tortured.
i think most people would have reacted the same way jin did -.-
Lord knows I would. What monsters.
I get the impression that they were tortured in other ways as well. Especially when you consider the images from when Monica found out.
Considering what could have happened to them, disembowelment and a surprise eye-exam would have been the least of their worries.
What I love about this is Brandi’s comment about email. That’s exactly the type of things I heard back in the day when email started hitting the masses.
I remember the first time I got a demonstration of a E-mail system. It was at a Texas Instruments plant, and they had a email system that allowed them to send a mail to anyone in the company who had an account. All mail was routed through the mail server at HQ, I think it was in Dallas, even from abroad.
As I remember it the adress was not the easiest format I’ve ever seen and a far cry from the mail addresses we are used to today. At least it was easier than what they used at IBM at the time, where you had to know the IP address (not sure they used TCP/IP, it might have been a precursor) of the server where the recipient had the account. Clunky as it might seem at times the current system using DNS, SMTP and POP and/or IMAP is way simpler for the users.
The domain for my first e-mail address was f1111.n109.z1.fidonet.org. And, anyone who knows what that means is probably at least as old as I am.
I miss some of the old echos.