E-mail: “But in reality, can it really work? Yes it can.”
July 23rd, 2007
Here’s a story from ‘89 about one of the first public demonstrations of the x.400 e-mail standard, which helped e-mail move across platforms. As with all old tech articles, the beauty is in the enthusiastic descriptions of what the new technology will bring.
[I]n a series of tests between Hughes Aircraft Company in Los Angeles, and Boeing in Seattle, electronic memos have taken only seconds to travel almost a thousand miles.
And now it takes “only seconds” to e-mail movies of my cat defiling a robotic litterbox from my mobile phone. That’s progress.
Click the image for .pdf. Thanks to Mark Nikolic @ Boeing and the Seattle Public Library.
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