What was your first email system?

[The Storm]

I actually invented email!!

[nikhilpai]

Originally posted by FMRocks
This might be the only poll here that hotmail has a chance to come out on top of.

Absolutely

[a_a]

yahoo adopted me...i got curious with the www oct. of '99.
my very 1st email i sent was dec. 1st. to my sister in florida...
the subject was 'yahoo'... my third boy was born.

my 1st personal ip was 3web... downloaded the cd from a friend and had free internet for more than a year.

[ivec]

Just a bit of nostalgia here... I started using email on a Unix based system in the early '90s, and for the first year I used it almost entirely just to "communicate in a new way" with my college friends. I very well remember my joy on the day I got my first modem and dialed in to that server - I could send and recieve email from my room and enjoyed being able to have a beer while emailing and gophering around . The next step was a local BBS which provided me a much shorter and nicer email address, but was sending and receiving email to/from the internet in batches only three or four times a day. Didn't matter much in those days

Originally posted by David
If I remember correctly, a guy called Bill Gates was using a similar machine, and started to write a program that eventually became known as MSDOS

MSDOS was not written by Bill Gates but by Tim Paterson and was known as QDOS (Quick and Dirty OS). You can find more on this interesting story by googling on "history of msdos"...

[LrdVader]

I started out with dialup BBSes, but I voted "other" because my first real use of internet-based email was through my original ISP-provided POP account.

Juno was my first email address about 10 years ago. I still have that free account since then. Althought is is 2mb in storage. But it still works and I use it only for my cousin in Mexico City.

My next was hotmail and I still have and use that free account.

[uhorn]

I got my 1st email acc from the ISP.
That was good except the smtp server would take rest on every Sunday morning. The sent mails were delayed therfore.

I guess Sunday morning is just not the time for work.

Since ISP's email acc are no longer in the mainstream,
the crit on them are no longer spotted.

[hadaso]

Originally posted by The Storm
I actually invented email!!

I saw two voted as "I invented email", so I thought perhaps you were the ghost that haunted Ray Tomlinson when he invented email. However, it seems that the common belief that Ray Tomlinson invented email is not 100% true (he did invent the user@host notation). http://www.fact-index.com/e/e_/e_mail.html has some interesting facts on the early days of email.

[The Storm]

Originally posted by hadaso
I saw two voted as "I invented email", so I thought perhaps you were the ghost that haunted Ray Tomlinson when he invented email.

Why yes, yes I was hehe

Was I even born when email was invented?! Hmm I must have been a guardian angel!

[bplat]

I believe I started off using my university's Convex 9000 mini, using ELM as the mail client. I could even dial into that machine, using a 2400 (gasp!) baud modem.

-...ert

[Chipper]

My first e-mail was Juno -- should I vote "a text based Unix system?" (I know the Mainframe world -- IBM iSeries, etc but I don't know too much about e-mail.)

[ktoto]

Being new to internet, I signed up for AOL 6.0. Yack. I canceled it just few months ago. I didn't know about any email services exept for yahoo, hotmail and mail.ru until I came to this forum.

[Killer]

My first use of email was from the BBS. They were plain and simple and I miss those days.

[anj]

Unix. Back then I loved Pine. It's still very good as pure text goes.

[RobinBeBe]

Mine was AOL.......my first web based was hotmail. I used Yahoo for years as my primary email, until they got rid of the free POP....

Robin