{"id":123716,"date":"2016-06-02T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T07:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/123716\/throwback-thursday-do-you-remember-how-to-send-an-email-80s-style\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T10:07:24","slug":"throwback-thursday-do-you-remember-how-to-send-an-email-80s-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/06\/02\/throwback-thursday-do-you-remember-how-to-send-an-email-80s-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Do you remember how to send an email 80s style?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that there was a once a time when sending an email took more than just typing and clicking\u00a0send. In 1984, it was a completely different story as demonstrated by this episode of a Thames TV program\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0968721\/\" target=\"_blank\">Database<\/a><\/em>, which was aimed at early computer geeks and tech enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of the show, the spotlight was on email technology. Microcomputer user Julian Green shows audiences how a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prestel\" target=\"_blank\">Prestel<\/a> (short for \u201cpress telephone\u201d) user had to dial up the main Prestel system in order to connect, which he does with a rotary telephone. The early IP he uses is Micronet 800, which has a \u201cletters page\u201d where users can write publicly to the provider and its other users.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Julian and his wife share their computer with several other people and it makes sense since Prestel\u2019s database was expensive, almost the equivalent of \u00a316 000 (R358 807) per year in today&#8217;s terms.<\/p>\n<p>According to IBM, South Africa had its first real computers delivered to a brokerage firm in 1959.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Watch the video and reminisce below:<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/szdbKz5CyhA' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='a3cceecba73c117b92c4877b844cc397'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time in 1984, sending an email took some real dedication. Watch this flashback and you\u2019ll never complain about emails again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":123717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[11217,11218,11219,1755,9564,11220,5573,11221,10198,2989],"class_list":["post-123716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-11217","tag-broadcast-app","tag-computers","tag-education","tag-emails","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-tech","tag-throwback-thursday","tag-tv"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["1984","broadcast app","Computers","education","emails","IOS","iPhone","Tech","Throwback Thursday","TV"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}