[HN Gopher] How to send an 'e mail' (1984) [video]
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How to send an 'e mail' (1984) [video]
Author : polm23
Score : 82 points
Date : 2021-03-06 13:47 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.youtube.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
| gbolcer wrote:
| Funny. I started at UCI in 1985 where they gave every student an
| email. 36 years later, the same exact email address still works.
| In fact, I think 1984 was one of the first years that email
| addresses standardized on the "natural" format everyone sees and
| uses today. We used the MH mail system that was developed at RAND
| and later adopted as an open source project there.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
| orf wrote:
| I see "1234" was a popular password in 1984 as well.
| walshemj wrote:
| 11111 was the password used for prince Philips demo account
| that got hacked in the infamous incident.
| temp0826 wrote:
| Hey! That's the password on my luggage
| dang wrote:
| If curious, some past threads:
|
| _How to send an 'E mail' (1984)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23978397 - July 2020 (1
| comment)
|
| _How to Send an Email (1984)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22595154 - March 2020 (1
| comment)
|
| _How to Send an Email in 1984_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628019 - Oct 2016 (47
| comments)
|
| _How to Send an Email in 1984_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11280242 - March 2016 (1
| comment)
| walshemj wrote:
| Interesting that he wasn't dialing the 618 short code we had -
| though Oftel did at some stage ake us stop using that.
|
| I actually used to use to dial the x.25 service to login from
| home using a portable terminal - no screen just paper.
| dt3ft wrote:
| He proceeds to enter his password as 12345... (at 1:21)
| Jugurtha wrote:
| I believe it's 1234.
| yummypaint wrote:
| The more things change the more they stay the same
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| ordering pizza via computer, about a decade earlier:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94d_h_t2QAA
| spookyuser wrote:
| Wow great video!
|
| I've recently been watching Look Around You and I have to assume
| that season 2 was directly inspired by this clip, the similarity
| is uncanny.
|
| An example: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t2yhw
| [deleted]
| Symbiote wrote:
| At the end of the video, there's a software transmission!
| doctorwhat wrote:
| I downloaded the audio and converted it to .wav. Made it mono,
| extracted the end, and saved as unsigned 8bits PCM. Now trying
| to figure out what the hell to do with it! Any pointers
| appreciated :)
| Doctor_Fegg wrote:
| Use MakeUEF to convert from .wav to .uef, and you can then
| load that into a BBC Micro emulator.
| doctorwhat wrote:
| Thanks, I was missing knowledge about that file format!
| sammorrowdrums wrote:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/4boa
| 6p/...
| doctorwhat wrote:
| thanks!
| Aardwolf wrote:
| "It's very simple really"
|
| plugs around various cables, switches on things, logs on, starts
| rotating dial and anxiously looks at camera
|
| "So it's a very simple connection to make"
|
| "Extremely simple"
| mc32 wrote:
| It's like your first day of calculus and the instructor talking
| about the final exam saying, yes it's extremely simple. Yes, of
| course, after you learn everything and do it daily, yes, then
| it's simple.
|
| This exemplifies why some technologists failed. They're
| "simple" once you get the pattern down, but it's hard for
| anyone unfamiliar.
| [deleted]
| mattm wrote:
| I just finished reading the book "The Dream Machine: J.C.R.
| Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal". Very
| highly recommended for anyone interested in the early days of
| computing and the internet and the people that helped make it
| happen.
| throw32993 wrote:
| Another good book is 'The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold
| Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture' by
| Brian Dear.
|
| It dates (1960s, 1970s) even before the Licklider book I think.
| Read the blurb, sounds amazing the things they had back then.
| dt3ft wrote:
| Another example showing looking up airport information or booking
| theatre tickets or downloading a file via prestel:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq53DO7zL_g
| codr7 wrote:
| Just push this button here :)
|
| I actually spent some time yesterday pushing buttons and sending
| emails, in a language that's as old as the video.
|
| https://github.com/codr7/emash
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