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[ih] The Atlantic on Email
- Subject: [ih] The Atlantic on Email
- From: jeanjour at comcast.net (John Day)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:52:59 -0500
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Agree with Noel, it was widely used within the ARPANET . . . almost immediately as I remember.
You have to wonder about a historian who can?t interpret the historical record in context.
> On Jan 11, 2016, at 10:34, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> From: Joly MacFie
>
>> At first, email was useful, but it wasn't widely used
>
> Probably worth noting that that was because the number of people who had
> access to it was limited; not that many people had ARPANet access. Among that
> group, though, it was pretty widely used; it was pretty much the original
> 'killer app'.
>
> Noel
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