From Penang
Saturday, October 22, 2005
A LONG (E-MAIL) LIFE
Having had my hotmail account since university, it has been a fairly steady ship for me. And the ship has sailed a considerable distance because after 7 years of service, my inbox has ballooned to over the 3 figure mark to OVER 1,000 e-mails!
I think 21 pages of inbox mail shows that I don't organise my e-mails into my 10 folders very often (well, ok, not at all). However after shifting through my folders, it appears that the oldest e-mail that I have is from one eca96skn@sheffield.ac.uk on 22 October, 1999 with the topic being a match report of the S.C.C.C. Warriors 6 a side football team (which we won 4-2 vs Freaks are Us).
And another thing - if you have ever wondered where Google might have got their name from - read The Magic of The Faraway Tree (Enid Blyton). It was so surreal to come across Google Buns in a book 40 years before the company launched their share bids to make Sergey Brin and Larry Page 6.2 million pounds EACH.
Actually after reading that last sentence, it's like Sergey & Larry found a real Faraway Tree, went up to the top where they ventured into the Land of Future Computing Ideas to get theirs...
Having had my hotmail account since university, it has been a fairly steady ship for me. And the ship has sailed a considerable distance because after 7 years of service, my inbox has ballooned to over the 3 figure mark to OVER 1,000 e-mails!
I think 21 pages of inbox mail shows that I don't organise my e-mails into my 10 folders very often (well, ok, not at all). However after shifting through my folders, it appears that the oldest e-mail that I have is from one eca96skn@sheffield.ac.uk on 22 October, 1999 with the topic being a match report of the S.C.C.C. Warriors 6 a side football team (which we won 4-2 vs Freaks are Us).
And another thing - if you have ever wondered where Google might have got their name from - read The Magic of The Faraway Tree (Enid Blyton). It was so surreal to come across Google Buns in a book 40 years before the company launched their share bids to make Sergey Brin and Larry Page 6.2 million pounds EACH.
Actually after reading that last sentence, it's like Sergey & Larry found a real Faraway Tree, went up to the top where they ventured into the Land of Future Computing Ideas to get theirs...
Comments:
Man, I am so honored to be the first guy who emailed you all those years ago!! Actually, can you forward that email to me cos I have prob deleted it ^-^...umm SCCC Warriors... brings back good memories!
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