Well looks like we had another occasion to celebrate this weekend other than watching football and eating turkey: E-mail’s birthday! E-mail turned 35 this weekend and to celebrate, we’re not going to clean out our SPAM folder for a day.
How is e-mail 35 you ask? Back in 1971, a programmer named Ray Tomlinson was messing around with an idea and eventually sent the first e-mail message. Fast-forward to 2006 and almost all of us take e-mail for granted. So to honor e-mail today, I give you the best thing I could find in my SPAM folder:
Prospero into the cave, My spirits are all bound up, as if I were injuice of the little purple flower into his eyes. But it so fell out,of a daughter and the poor lady received much comfort from the sight
heard that Perdita was his daughter, the great sorrow that he felt Hero was an imprudent lady, and that she talked with men from her this manner this strange event came to pass.
My lord, replied Protheus, it is a letter from my friend Valentine….
Cringe! Worst emails ever [The Sun]