E-Mail time capsule.

Post by **reefsurfer** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:10 pm

http://www.forbes.com/2005/10/20/cx_de_ ... omm05.html

From Oct. 24, 2005 to Nov. 30, 2005, Forbes.com will collect thousands of letters that our readers have written to themselves. And we'll deliver them up to 20 years later.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:26 pm

what a silly idea.

Post by **Scourge** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:18 pm

It'll fail.

Post by **werldhed** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:26 pm

There won't be email in 20 years.

Post by **glossy** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:26 pm

werldhed wrote:There won't be email in 20 years.

I agree

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:40 pm

even if there was email in 20 years, i bet that server won't be around and perhaps not that company.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:42 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:even if there was email in 20 years, i bet that server won't be around and perhaps not that company.

Did you read the article?

Post by **equivo** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:46 pm

of course there will be e-mail in 20 years. what could surpass it? snail mail was around for centuries.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:47 pm

Massive Quasars wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:even if there was email in 20 years, i bet that server won't be around and perhaps not that company.
Did you read the article?

nope. and now that i did, i retract my statement. email "time capsuling" was on slashdot a while ago, but it wasn't forbes doing the hosting.

still, i agree with werdheld, there won't be email in 20 years.

Post by **werldhed** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:48 pm

Exponential progress and whatnot...

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:50 pm

equivo wrote:of course there will be e-mail in 20 years. what could surpass it? snail mail was around for centuries.

was around? most of the reason why it still is around is because people still need to send tangible things.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:51 pm

werldhed wrote:Exponential progress and whatnot...

Indeed.

Perhaps brain IM then? Email may not exist but some means of sending information will, they'll simply use that if they must.

edit: or maybe not, considering they'd have to find each person on the list using their new method of communication

Post by **tnf** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:13 pm

i just found the old floppy disk i had my college emails on from back in the early to mid 90's.

funny to re-read some of that stuff...i realize how naive i was in my late teens and early 20's.

Post by **Canis** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:14 pm

tnf wrote:i just found the old floppy disk i had my college emails on from back in the early to mid 90's.

funny to re-read some of that stuff...i realize how naive i was in my late teens and early 20's.

Its surprising they let people of that age vote...

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:02 am

Canis wrote:
tnf wrote:i just found the old floppy disk i had my college emails on from back in the early to mid 90's.

funny to re-read some of that stuff...i realize how naive i was in my late teens and early 20's.
Its surprising they let people of that age vote...

the country would probably run smoother if voting had a ceiling as well as a floor. (fucking old people with nothing to do on a thursday)