eMail - back in the day.....

[Vlasta]

anyone remember Prestel? I do. I maintained some of the transmission equipment in a telephone repeater station although I never sent an email....

I did though send emails at work in the early 1990's over the British Telecom packet switched network


http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/how-to-send-an-e-mail-1984.html

[Twinrocket]

“It’s simple, really,” says Julian, unplugging a British Telecom cable from one socket and plugging it into a modem, plugging a different wire from the modem into the first socket, switching on the modem, and then hand-dialing the number of a “main computer” — with his rotary phone. “Extremely simple,” he reiterates.