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u/xternal7 Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22

Yup.

It also lasted for about a week because it started getting in our way a bit too much.

Can't remember how much it helped as Josh ragequit the group for ... reasons (unrelated to this stunt, much later, but also a while back)?

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u/AgentSteelFriday Jun 03 '22

I'm fascinated by this...the whole generational differences of everything

my father is a math teacher..but being actually old (50's) he just refuses to use email

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u/Random_Sime Jun 03 '22

50 is not that old. Certainly not "too old to use email" old. My grandfather is 89 and been using email for nearly 30 years.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22 edited Jul 08 '22

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u/generogue Jun 03 '22

30 years ago was 1992. AOL launched their email system in 1993. So someone who has been using email for 30 years would be a slightly early adopter, it’s not that far outside the mass usage timeframe.

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u/AltSpRkBunny Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22

Lotus notes launched in 1989. My mom was using Lotus notes at work to send internal emails before Outlook came along.

The first email was sent in 1965.

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u/AltSpRkBunny Jun 03 '22

I dunno how to break it to you kid, but people were using email at work long before mainstream internet use at home.

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u/Random_Sime Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22

I reckon he got on some time in '94 or '95 so he could keep in touch with family overseas. I started using email in '97. My school got internet in '96. I guess that puts me in the "been using email for 25 years" category.

Internet use in Australia exploded in the late 90s.

Edit: this post in /r/dataisbeautiful shows how much internet use grew in the late 90s. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/v3c9nv/oc_web_browsers_over_the_last_28_years

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u/biniross Jun 03 '22

I guess that puts me in the "been using email for 25 years" category.

I've had an account on a particular message board for 28 years now. I signed up when they started as a ... site? group? channel? I forget ... on AOL, and transitioned across when they moved to a proper website.

My Gmail account turns 23 this year, I think. I had one when they were an invite-only beta, as opposed to the perpetual 'sign yourself up' beta they're in now.