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echo: classic_computer
to: Tony Langdon
from: Dave Drum
date: 2017-03-05 07:11:28
subject: Re: Macintosh echo

-=> Tony Langdon wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> Glen was the only one I knew of. My other Adlaidewhoos all used a local
 DD> to S.A. dial-up service. But they didn't trot all about the Southern
 DD> Hemisphere. My friends in Netherlands and France used a local (to them)
 DD> dial-up service.

 TL> Those would have been the days before Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, wifi
 TL> hotspots and mobile Internet everywhere.  So I can see how an AOL
 TL> account would have made a lot of sense. :)

Others that have survived the interweb's smothering presence are Earthlink and 
Juno. There may be others - but those spring to mind easily -- I have 
correspondents who still use those email addresses. With the advent of the 
World Wide Wait one could ditch the list of local dial-up access numbers if 
trying to access messages away from home.

... The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is 
waiting
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