FLAMES.GIF 01.25.09 | ChickMail

[stanleylieber]

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[fusis]

ha, great story!

[stanleylieber]

I would like to get some of those old e-mails back.

[tinyfolk]

I live in Southern Indiana.

[silenceinspades]

i think you, stanleylieber, my crazed born again christian ex girlfriend and roseanne all live pretty close together.

[stanleylieber]

Also Don Mattingly and Katheryn Janeway.

[silenceinspades]

i'm not sure what sounds more like sci fi to me; that you had web based email in 1998 or that you had aggressive feminist pen pals.

[tinyfolk]

Yeah, seriously! I had pop3 e-mail in 1998. What's wrong with pop3?

[stanleylieber]

I had very particular requirements. I was in and out of all kinds of locations and I needed my archived mail to be easily accessible from the cloud. POP3 would have required too much manual clicking every time I used it on a strange computer to configure, download, read, erase, then finally un-configure whatever strange client happened to be installed on the machine at hand.

dial up up up

[tinyfolk]

the chickmail cloud! i like it.

[stanleylieber]

Yeah I vaguely recall the whole ChickClick thing. Do you remember this?

I'm so confused.

[stanleylieber]

Maybe the site was just pretending to close down to see if we really, really liked it.

[jogs6000]

nice!

[stanleylieber]

It had a reasonably clean interface for the the time. Mostly all blue.