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Sending an email in 1984 was a very different experience than it is today

Jun 15, 2017, 00:01 IST

Check out Thames TV's full segment from 1984:

And with a press of a button, you could print out your email, too.

And just like that, your email's recipient would get the email on their computer.

Once you were connected to the internet, you could finally write your email. But there were no email addresses back then as we know them today.

The Greens connected to the Micronet 800 service, which was a sort of online magazine that provided news, software reviews, as well as "electronic mail" services.

And just like that, you were connected to the internet!

And that's when "things" were "starting to happen."

Once you got a dial tone, you would just flick a switch on the modem.

Then, you needed to call your computer with a phone.

It's "extremely simple," according to Julian Green.

It's extremely simple, according to Julian Green.

Before sending an email in 1984, you first had to connect to the internet. Sounds simple enough now, but not so much in 1984...

You first needed to hook up the phone line to the modem, and then connect the modem to the computer:

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