What year did you send your first email?

[kwassa]

6. At DEC in the late '80s.

All the employees were given an email account, and most had no idea of what to do with it.

The default reply mode was "all". When the company started getting into financial problems in the early '90s, an email was sent out from management about how the water filter was being taken out of the employee lounge to save money. Upset employees sent out their first email replies, to "all". Other employees replied, saying "why did you send this to me? I don't care" which also went to "all". This snowballed and, of course, crashed servers everywhere. It was a great moment. The introduction to email.

DEC also had a massive intranet that went all over the world. I remember talking with someone in Australia in live time as we both listened to the live CNN broadcast from Baghdad as the US attacked with missles in the first Gulf War. It made me realize how small the world really was with modern technology.

and I got on to the Internet in '93 after DEC collapsed and took away my fix.