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E-Mail time capsule.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:10 pm
by reefsurfer
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.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:26 pm
by Dr_Watson
what a silly idea.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:18 pm
by Scourge
It'll fail.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:26 pm
by werldhed
There won't be email in 20 years.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:26 pm
by glossy
werldhed wrote:There won't be email in 20 years.
I agree
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:40 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
even if there was email in 20 years, i bet that server won't be around and perhaps not that company.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:42 pm
by Massive Quasars
+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?
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:46 pm
by equivo
of course there will be e-mail in 20 years. what could surpass it? snail mail was around for centuries.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:47 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
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.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:48 pm
by werldhed
Exponential progress and whatnot...
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:50 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
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.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:51 pm
by Massive Quasars
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
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:13 pm
by tnf
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.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:14 pm
by Canis
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...
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:02 am
by Dr_Watson
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)