Yesterday’s Email Once More

Do you remember the good old days of email?

You mean when email clients were really easy to use, and you didn't get half as much spam as you get now, and you were getting Nigerian prince and princess scams? Oh, yeah, that was a long time ago.

That was a long time ago.

That was a long time ago.

That was when the internet really first started.

I remember getting my first email address in '97, and it kinda opened up the world, you know, for communication.

You got all these mailing lists and stuff, and you could join them, and you can learn, and it was great.

I loved mailing lists.

I think social media has complicated that so much now, especially because you never know what your social media is going to look like from one day to the next.

So I do miss the days of mailing lists where you could just hit Control R or something similar and respond to a message and just have a conversation with someone or with a list of people, and it was just a much easier process that didn't continuously change.

So I do miss that, and there was so much you could do.

You could go, and you could join newsletters and, like you said, mailing lists and learn stuff and, you know, get to know people who you were on lists with based on questions that they asked.

And sometimes that led into off-list conversations, and you got to meet people and get to know them.

It was a really great experience, and more than that, it was a relatively simple experience.

I got my first email account, which I still have, I think in January of 2001, so very early that year.

February at the latest, but I think it was January, and have had that address ever since.

Still use it, and people laugh at it 'cause it's a Hotmail address, and it's old.

But I love it and still have access to it.

I get tons of spam there now, but it's still an address that I have and use, and I don't wanna get rid of it 'cause it reminds me of the good old days of mail.

And we have something for you today that might also remind you of the good old days of mail.