In 2010 as in 1995, you kind of need to see Microsoft's "social interface" to understand it.

Unfortunately for Microsoft, Bob was developed before the Internet went mainstream–but shipped more or less exactly as the Web became interesting to millions of people. The one nod to the Net it included was e-mail, provided via the telegram-like MCI Mail service. You paid $5 a month to send up to 15 e-mails, each of which could be up to 5000 characters; additional ones cost 45 cents apiece.

Note the reference to the Bob Magazine, a 29-page document which came with the allegedly manual-free Bob.