One of the better guys in my department at the Skunk Works gets all the spam. Last week it was "Improve Your Sex Life" from "Online Legal Advice." I think they're gonna sue him if he doesn't start dating more! Either that or he's decided to sue himself. In part.
He was Engineering's earliest and most whole-hearted adopter of business e-mail. You can tell the pioneers -- they're the ones with all the arrow wounds.
7 or 8 years ago a friend of mine lost his e-mail address It went to his old ARPANET e-mail from the '70's. His "section" was spun off to a private corporation. (His co-workers were asked to "produce something commercial" and the made a holographic sight. yea them.) Some of those "first adopters" have been around for a while.
ReplyDeleteI began my foray into 'computing' (HA!) with a TI99. Mostly I just poked buttons and made monkey sounds. Oh, and a Sinclair of course. Look at the colors it makes!
ReplyDeleteI recall dialing into the federal reserve bank (pre-net) with a 256K dial up modem, and thinking I was the hottest thing alive. That was a 386/25 running DOS. 5.0 I think.
Prodigy, Compuserve, then that new fangled 'internet' thing (born as the ARPA net)
Man, it's been a long time
Spam:
ReplyDeleteWell, of the two forms of self-flagellation provided, dealing with lawyers is certainly one of them.