Nothing makes you feel old like email…
From “fourteen years ago today”. An old friend and ex-coworker sent me this, found while digging through mail archives.
From: Bill BradfordSubject: Re: Gimme, gimme, gimme To: Jeff Bewley
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 15:32:15 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <199510122020.PAA08909@ion1.ionet.net> from "Jeff Bewley" at Oct 12, 95 03:20:30 pm > Well, folks, sorry to whine again, Oh, no problem, wabbit@tulsa-victim.ionet.net. We're used to it by now.
> Seriously, I have one #2 Win disk left, and I haven't ever > got any Win95 disks...I know you guys hate running the > Disk-o-matic 2000, but I hate having people stop by > and get in my face for not having the software. I'll tell Jay when he gets here to fire it up. > Thanks! I'll buy ya'll a beer next time I'm in OKC (heh.. > have fun splitting that can of Natural Light between > the three of ya!) Honestly, I just might be OLD ENOUGH by the time you get down here to actually DRINK it! I turn 21 on 11/5. NOW if I can just get Mom to buy me that Netra5 for my birthday.....
> Seriously, I'd really appreciate any help you could give me on > this! Thanks! Will do. bill
Jeff's comment, "No matter how bad things get, they'll never be as bad as duplicating install disks for Win95 at ioNET."
October 13th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Would that I still had my mail from ’95! Sadly it got eaten by a combination of a) old tech (QIC-80 streamer tapes), b) old tech (the relevant drive died), c) reliance on external factors (thinking that the service provider, a “FirstClass” BBS shop, would make backups of their servers) and d) stupidity (see a. to c., combined).
So I only have (complete, though) archives from ’98 onwards.