In a few short months it’s going to be 2009, and a ton of stuff has changed in the world of computing over the past almost-ten years. Some of the modern advancements have proven to be a notable improvement while others still produce the same crapola they did nearly ten years ago.

In this installment we’ll be taking a look at e-mail.

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The first experience I had with internet was in the late 1990s with web browsing. The second was e-mail.

E-Mail is one of those forms of communication that will exist as long as computers do. Through thick and thin, e-mail has survived the test of time and is still considered to be an absolute vital means of internet communications.

Electronic mail does predate the internet all the way back to 1966 when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wanted a means to send electronic messages from computer to computer – and did so successfully.

The internet as we know it today still uses e-mail widely and shows absolutely no signs of slowing down.

Let’s take a look at how e-mail has changed from 1999 to 2009.