JCRegister

Reason I asked is because I got intrigued when researchers at Cornell University want us to check if we receive two chain letters that circulated in 1997. We’re talking about 11 years here. More than a decade ago. I will not elaborate the emails they’re looking for but here’s the link in case you’re interested.

Curiously, I logged in to my oldest (or first) email account, which was created sometime in 1997. However, the oldest message that I was able to keep was in 1998, the last year of my college education. My account was under rocketmail, which eventually was bought by Yahoo. During that time, my internet connection was dialup, and my ultimate wish was to get a 56kbps modem. Take a look at the screen capture of my inbox:

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So this means I didn’t have the email message that Cornell University is looking for.

Anyway, I was wondering what Jersey City was like, in terms of technology, a decade ago. How was the internet circa 1995? Did you have AOL as your ISP?