@wordsmith @matt @mike This is a pretty good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email
My own experience at the time was that it was exciting to be able to email anyone with an email address, but I knew hardly anyone with an email address (outside my employer's, IBM's, network). So similar to the social web today - building up your network takes a while.
This may also interest you: https://underlap.org/early-internet-access
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