Weird Internet: Sending an Email in 1984

All right, so, I know I call this feature "weird internet," and usually use it to give you access to the stranger, perhaps darker parts of the interwebs, but this one is weird too. Not weird in the "is this even legal?" or "why isn't the person who made this locked away in an asylum somewhere?" way, but in the "this is completely different from what I know and it's hard to reconcile it within my brain" way.

You've probably sent an email today. Maybe you've sent a few (or a few dozen). It's hard to imagine life before email, but this email shows how primitive things were before we were all connected to each other at all times.

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By the way, I haven't stopped laughing about the "I'm now waiting for the computer to answer me" line for about fifteen solid minutes.