Comments on: The Early Days of Email #EmailLove

By: Lolli

Lolli — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:30:26 +0000

In reply to Amanda @ High Impact Mom. I still wrote letters for many years. Especially to boys. I don't think I EVER had an email boyfriend. Strange to think... ;)

By: Lolli

Lolli — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:29:18 +0000

In reply to julie. Oh, yes, I had the huge, heavy laptop too. I don't think mine was email compatible, or else I bet my roommate and I would have totally done the back and forth thing. Kind of like texting, but with a really BIG phone...

By: julie

julie — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:14:59 +0000

I, too, started freshman year with a computer on my desk. It was an old fashioned laptop. Bulky as anything. like, a hardrive with an opening on top. Couldn’t carry it anywhere.

It wasn’t until Junior year that SMU got the Kermit system of email. Remember how DOS it was? I signed up for AOL around the same time. Didn’t we all love collecting the disks that announced “SIGN UP FOR FREE!”

My best memory? emailing my roommate. I’d send her a message, log off, get up from the chair, then she’d sit down and log on to read the message. We could do it for hours.

By: Amanda @ High Impact Mom

Amanda @ High Impact Mom — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:54:12 +0000

Oh I love, love, love the pyramid picture!! And yep, I remember when I first got the ez-mail and oh how my life changed…no more finger cramps and well…not sending letters for me!

By: dysfunctional mom

dysfunctional mom — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:15:42 +0000

I didn’t have the internet at home until around 2002. My (then) husband was kind of anti-technology and it just wasn’t a necessary expense. But then my son was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation, and internet research and an email support group helped me tremendously.
Now, I just can’t imagine life without it. I met many friends through email “loops” and met my (new) husband online; the first contact we ever had was an email!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:45:08 +0000

I also started college in 1992, and the first time I emailed was in my sophomore year when I was dating a tech guy I had met over the summer. I immediately thought it was great, but none of my friends had email so I didn’t get to use it a lot. The funny thing was I didn’t hear of the Internet until my senior year of college. To me, email and the Internet were two completely separate things.

By: Lolli

Lolli — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:58:01 +0000

In reply to Lisa. Haha! Funny how we don't know what things we're going to rely on and use every day when they are brand new. Makes me wonder what new-fangled things right now are going to be tomorrow's bread and butter.

By: Lolli

Lolli — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:57:04 +0000

In reply to Holly H.. That's kind of where I was back when my roommate was emailing her family. I would have loved to have given it a try if I knew anyone with an email address (besides her dad...LOL)

By: Lolli

Lolli — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:56:03 +0000

In reply to Carolyn (temysmom). Yes, I would say that the email stalking DID work! I'm so glad it did! :)

By: Holly H.

Holly H. — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:59:59 +0000

My first experience with email was 1994, when I started college. This geeky guy was at a computer terminal in the lounge using “email,” and the rest of us were fascinated. It was solely text based — orange yellow on a black screen. I would have sent one, but I didn’t know anyone with an email address. Thank goodness email evolved quickly!