~larcher » history http://spoon.cx/~larcher Larry Archer's irregular weblog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:03:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 old email http://spoon.cx/~larcher/2005/06/30/old-email/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-email http://spoon.cx/~larcher/2005/06/30/old-email/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:46:44 +0000 larcher http://spoon.cx/~larcher/blog/index.php/?p=433 Wow .. I just found a bunch of old backup files with emails from 1996 ! That’s like .. *counting* .. about 6 computers and 10 email addresses ago. Now I just need some scripts that will convert messages from Eudora and Juno (juno.com! when all they did was free dialup email!) into some nice normal unix mail format.

I was a big dork in 1996. ;-)

a sample:

Hey. howzit goin?
Would like to win a laptop? I found this contest on the web where you have to solve all these puzzles and when you finish, you get yourself entered into a drawing for a pentium 75 laptop with a 28.8 PCMCIA modem.. here’s the URL

A modem — how quaint! 28.8 kbps no less!

Also found backups of old webpages, but I’ll spare you the horror.

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