Holy fucks, I love this community. Reply

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Wow. I had no idea that Email (tm) was a trademark! Reply

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You can so obviously tell from that picture that they were using the internet for swinging. Reply

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And that they share glassware. Reply

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LOL my thoughts exactly





also, icon love. Reply

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That 800 number still goes to Compuserve. Reply

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For some reason, Email™ cracked my shit up. Reply

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This is probably one of my favorite posts yet. Great historical significance. Reply

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Dialup internet 10 years ago was slow as fuck. I can only imagine how slow it was in 1983! Reply

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300bps to 1200bps.



Text would come in slow enough that you could read it comfortably without pausing!

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I remember when 14.4 was consider high speed. Reply

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Oooh, me too. We were so excited when we upgraded to 14.4. Reply

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I remember being astounded by the speed the text came in at 1200.



But then, I remember shoving phone handsets into the cups on a modem.

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Oh man, I love love love retro computer ads. Reply

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oh hell yes! Reply

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I had a Compuserve account for years. Oh man, it could get EXPENSIVE. They probably paid a lot of money for their party for eleven people in nine different states! Reply

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That was our first online service provider (wouldn't use the term ISP since it wasn't the Internet per se), back in the early 90s... :) Reply

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I can only assume that "Multi-channel CB simulator" means "IRC." How delightfully retro-dorkish! Reply

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I remember Compuserve. I was recruited by Apple to write most of the on-going content for their eWorld online service, whose business model was supposed to directly compete with CS. Strange times, indeed, to see Apple try to go head to head with such a well-established service as CS.



I have friends who stayed on CS almost to the end, then finally got an aol.com address. They loved it so much, they'd be on it to this day -- and even pay the premium charges! LOL!



Thanks for posting the ad. Definitely brings back some fond memories. Reply

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Why are they in their robes? They have that "we just got busy" glow, and it ain't from the computer. I wonder if the people in the commercial are still alive. I'll bet they are in their 70's. Reply

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I graduated from HS in 1983, it wasn't THAT long ago! :P



They're probably in their 30s in this pic, so that would put them at 50-60 now. Reply

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I'm going with the comment above and picturing an ASCII webcam, delivered one character at a time. Okay, so that didn't exist, but if it had, there might have been more couples like this.



Also, I'd like to know how everyone else refered to this 'Email,' since they make it sound oh-so exotic. Does seem like an early non-hyphenated use. Reply

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