About 6 months ago I found some archives of my old email messages and imported them into my current email client. It was motivated by the death of a friend from college which led me to go searching for email exchanges we had had. I ended up finding dozens of files filled with emails I’d moved from machine to machine since the mid 80’s.
Anyway, the oldest message on my computer now is dated “19 Jul 88.” I could have sworn I needed to use bangpaths back then but both the to and from fields are in standard name@domain format. When did we stop using bangpaths?
10/3/04. I did not know I even had that address for that long.
Nov 12, 2008.
On Nov 11, 2008 my husband said to me “It will be fine, don’t worry about a thing, I’ve done this upgrade before”
Now he is required to test all upgrades on HIS computer before he is allowed to touch mine (Not that it would have helped in this situation, it was an exchange server upgrade that … failed.)
My oldest is Jan 3, 1996. It was a serial number for some software called CDR Publisher that I don’t even remember what does.
Apparently during the month of Jan 1996 I received 92 e-mails. In Jan 2012 I received 786. Granted, most of those from Jan 2012 are computer-generated reports and not from people.
I’ve converted and transferred my email over time and kept it all. It goes back to June 1991, not without gaps.
Nov 24 1995
We had just got our new cc:Mail access.
I forget what we were using before that…maybe Network Courier? I’ve managed to archive all my cc:Mail folders and can see them in Outlook. I can’t find anything from before that.
I’m getting too old to remember the details of our upgrades. We had DOS machines and could only run one thing at a time, with a mainframe dumb terminal on our desks as well. Then we upgraded to OS/2 before finally moving to WinXP.
Sounds like you worked for a bank.
Knead
Former Bank Minion