Horst Herb wrote:
I started using emails even *before* PCs were on the market (using "pine" on the mainframe of the Technical University of Munich, and it was free already then.
Ahh, Pine! I well remember it as my first E-mail client, used remotely from home via terminal emulation software, from PCs the X86 labs, or Sun terminals, to my account on the students' Solaris mail and file server at SoCS at UTS, between 1996 and 1998.
Great days indeed. What you could do at home with a 486 and a 14.4kbps connection was just about as useful as what we do now with our vastly enhanced resources.
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