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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

For a small period of time I was a god that would bless people with gmail invites lol. That brings me back. I remember compuserve and Hotmail but I don't remember them being especially complicated at all. Maybe that was before my time...? Which would be nice for once

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, email existed long before GMail/Hotmail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me more about the before times oh wise one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Back in my day, we had to deliver each packet by hand! In the snow, uphill both ways!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hotmail was already the easy-mode stuff.

Before that you'd get your email account provided by the ISP, and before that you'd have to find someone who ran an email server and ask nicely for them to make you an account.

And regarding ease of use: The reason why e.g. SMTP is human-readable is because in the early days SMTP wasn't the protocol that your email client used to talk to the server. It was the email client.

You'd just telnet to your server and type in the SMTP commands manually.