1 December 1983: Electronic mail tends to be informal in style encouraging people to send brazen messages but even if you are abroad, work can follow you wherever you are
A colleague and I were in different parts of the United States recently and were due to meet at an international airport. I arrived to meet his 6 o’clock flight and to pass the time, went to a call box, put in 10 cents, dialled a local number and linked my handheld computer, via a local computer, to another computer in Britain. I then interrogated my electronic mailbox in London.
There was one new message. It read “I got an earlier flight and have been sitting in the United Airways arrivals lounge since. Why the hell don’t you read your mail more often?” I found him, sitting indignantly, only 100 yards away.
Continue reading…
1 December 1983: Electronic mail tends to be informal in style encouraging people to send brazen messages but even if you are abroad, work can follow you wherever you are
A colleague and I were in different parts of the United States recently and were due to meet at an international airport. I arrived to meet his 6 o’clock flight and to pass the time, went to a call box, put in 10 cents, dialled a local number and linked my handheld computer, via a local computer, to another computer in Britain. I then interrogated my electronic mailbox in London.
There was one new message. It read “I got an earlier flight and have been sitting in the United Airways arrivals lounge since. Why the hell don’t you read your mail more often?” I found him, sitting indignantly, only 100 yards away. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian