{"id":12457,"date":"2023-12-01T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T05:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/could-electronic-mail-undermine-conventional-post-archive-1-december-1983\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T06:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T05:37:21","slug":"could-electronic-mail-undermine-conventional-post-archive-1-december-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/could-electronic-mail-undermine-conventional-post-archive-1-december-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Could electronic mail undermine conventional post? \u2013 archive, 1 December 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 December 1983<\/strong>: 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<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019clock 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.<\/p>\n<p>There was one new message. It read \u201cI got an earlier flight and have been sitting in the United Airways arrivals lounge since. Why the hell don\u2019t you read your mail more often?\u201d I found him, sitting indignantly, only 100 yards away.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/dec\/01\/could-email-undermine-conventional-post-1983\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2bf0be216adf309eebebd58c5e310b049c2f9d3a\/0_36_4072_2443\/master\/4072.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fa749de7b186fd18c0ee8dd9453a240c\" title=\"Could electronic mail undermine conventional post? \u2013 archive, 1 December 1983\" \/>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<br \/>\nA 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\u2019clock 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.<br \/>\nThere was one new message. It read \u201cI got an earlier flight and have been sitting in the United Airways arrivals lounge since. Why the hell don\u2019t you read your mail more often?\u201d I found him, sitting indignantly, only 100 yards away. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/could-electronic-mail-undermine-conventional-post-archive-1-december-1983\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could electronic mail undermine conventional post? \u2013 archive, 1 December 1983<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}