And now we get to the laughable stuff.
This photo is part of a two page spread detailing the wonder and marvel of that new technological advent: Email!
Email had been around, of course, for some time, but the story here -- cleverly presented as an Email to glom@mail.auburn.edu Re: Email, everybody's using it! -- is that in the last year or two it had really gained popularity on campus.
The University was a thorough adopter, being named one of the most wired campuses in the country throughout the mid-late 1990s. Efficiency, cost-effectiveness and fewer stamps are noted, and all of Emails wonderful praises are mentioned here.
Except for chain letters and forwards. Old school computer geeks will appreciate that we were using Telnet and Mallard. I miss them both. Pine.
Too obscure?
The caption for this photo read in part "Brandy e-mails from her home using America Online, using her computer to communicate with her long-distance friends and to meet new friends."
In the computer labs in this, my freshman year, were top of the line 386s. And they would fly. Or so we thought.
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