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How to Send an Email in 1984
First messaging system I used was in 1998 on the elementary school's computers. It was called P-Mail/Pegasus Mail.
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In '96 (or around there) I heard from some of the older kids about this new cool thing called "Hotmail" (pre-Microsoft). Also remember the horror when one of my friends misspelled "mail" as "male" when typing it into AltaVista...
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Originally stylized as HoTMaiL, the capitals spelling out HTML! :)
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Still exists -
http://www.pmail.com/
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By 1998, household internet had been a "thing" for several years. You could get a normal Internet e-mail account from an ISP.
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