I notice in season 2 Remington sent Laura an email of sorts. Anyone else know this could be done in 1983?
Which episode was this? I don't remember it off the top of my head.
shareI don't know if anyone is still interested but the episode was Steele Frame and it wasnt an email per se but a computer to computer message originating from a computer store, received by Mildred on her brand new state-of-the-art computer.
shareApparently the first email was sent in 1971. By '83 Compuserve was probably available, which was pretty similar to a limited version of what the internet is today. There may have been other services for lawfirms and such that she could've been accessing (haven't seen the episode you're talking about).
I think the original Atari home system even had some type of online service for a bit
..or maybe not, lol - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSVP9LuRhU
Around that time we had a similar electronic inter office mail system where I worked; and we were a fairly small office. Our system was a Digital PDP-1134. Monochrome screens, large bulky monitors and keyboards, ah the good old days.
shareYeah, internal e-mail within a company is a whole different thing than e-mail as we're used to now, and it was in common usage *much* earlier.
shareIn 1983, I was in "junior high" (as we called it then), and part of our computer class trained us in how to use e-mail. However, I didn't see it again until college.
shareI first heard of and started using it in the early 90's or so, in grade school but didn't get a computer at home till a little later.
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Sorry for this late response...
I worked for MCI Telecommunications in the early 80's - The second year I worked there they introduced "inter-office communication" essentially e-mail within the company - whether you worked in Denver, California, whatever. Very similar to now. I did think it was funny though when I started getting e mails that were supposed to go to a gal in California who was a manager. Her name was the same as mine, escept she went by her middle name.. but legally, she had my name!
Finally called her and asked if she wanted me to keep forwarding them - most were just reminders about meetings!
most ? what were the few that werent ? Man,I am so going to time travel back to the days before I was born in 1989,not out of nostalgia,because I never lived through it,but out of sheer fun to be there,so out of my element,and yet,will be so groovy and radical as they used to say back in them ''good old days'' . I am sure I would chuckle quite a bit,enjoy watching a CRT television set ,or even a black-and-white program in the 50s. I will take a laptop with me back in time,just so I can introduce it and maybe someone might back-engineer it,nah,better not.
shareIt is very possible that there could have been some form of email available, and what was shown in the episode was the contemporary format. Keep in mind, shows and movies are taped/filmed at least months before they aired on TV.
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I worked at a company people might recognize as TI, that made the "Professional Computer" as opposed to the IBM "Personal Computer". There were TV ads for it with star/comedian Bill Cosby showing how much faster LOTUS 1-2-3 ran on the Professional Computer, side-by-side. It had just one major drawback though... it didn't say "IBM" on it.
By and large, company and campus email existed well before the 1982-83 time frame of those new things, but was limited by the mainframe terminals available. Before there were PCs, there were monochrome Commodore PET computers (slightly preceded the APPLE II - those had optional color displays!) costlmg about one-fifth what ONE IBM terminal cost, so companies and universities were installing five of them instead of one IBM or DEC/VAX terminal. The real drawback to the PET? It had a rectangular keyboard, NOT the usual QWERTY modern keyboards. But they WERE cheap, so 2-finger typing was the rule, and that was in the mid to later 1970s.
In the early 1980s, I had an ATARI computer that used game cartridges to play Space Invaders, Centipede and Pac-Man, or ran a more advanced BASIC from a cartridge, just like Pac-Man, but it was better than the APPLE II BASIC... Accessories included modems and printers so you could connect with the big services like CompuServe and Prodigy, and check the stock market, plus send mail and buy/sell orders to your broker, or play Adventure or Empire against other online users.
That capability had then become available to ordinary (but somewhat tech-savy) people.
Here is when the wizards controlling the big centralized computers rapidly lost the control to distributed computing powered by Microsoft/INTEL and APPLE/Motorola.
Ironicly, Microsoft is now pushing for *cloud storage and computing* and running programs and apps from any/all of the distributed computing devices, (Pads, tablets, smart phones, etc., basicly new terminals), and back the world goes to wizards and large centralized server systems... spelled c-l-o-u-d.
*snicker*
That way, they get paid monthly or annually for people that might be using their intellectual property (programs/apps!), plus paying more for the high speed internet connections, (including wifi).
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Only now, Microsoft will be getting paid instead of IBM... and you really cannot consider your data, mail, photographs, or interactions to be *private* any more.
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dont be lazy,just google it,check out wikipedia.
shareEmailing was definitely going on in the early 80s. It revolutionized the way screenplays were written. I learned about it film history class.
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Yes, although many people had personal email accounts from companies like AOL and Compuserve.
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