E-mail is the future!!

I was going through some old papers today and came across a letter from the assistant dean of students at Eastman. It's an interesting look back to September 1995. Here are some excerpts.

"It is my pleasure to announce that a deal has recently been negotiated on behalf of the student body......For a nominal charge of $10 per academic year, an E-mail account will be issued for you...Currently, the charge for such a service is $145 per account per year...Your account will also provide text access to the Internet, ftp, gopher, news, Telnet and the World Wide Web...It is expected that E-mail will be one of the primary means of communication between members of the Eastman community within the next couple of years....There will also be classes available on the River Campus to train you in the use of your new account. If you want to take these classes, you must sign up...as soon as possible."

I tried it. At the time it was just too much trouble. Seems like a different world. My computer at the time used the 5 inch floppy discs and had a dot matrix printer. I finally got an email account in the Summer of 2006. (Correction - make that summer 2007) It didn't do me much good since I hardly knew anyone else that had an email address. My 14.4 dial-up modem on the new computer was pretty great, though.