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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
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Location: Belfast
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_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Altavista was the first search engine that I used. Pretty good for a while.
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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I remember altavista and its warez version called astlavista or something similar. I thought it was better than yahoo. For some reason, I hated the yahoo search but loved the yahoo stuff like games - loved playing online pool; and yahoo chat - my first chat room. Still recall chatting to an Australian girl who asked me "a/s/l" and I had no clue. She was rather attractive though. But this was back in a time when we had internet cafes and that's how I surfed.
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm
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Location: Belfast
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AltaVista and HotBot.com Blimey, talking back in '96 now. Mark
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Amnesia10
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Yes and I was switched from Mosaic to Netscape at the same time. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm
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Location: Belfast
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Ahh, Netscape Navigator. Mark
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Amnesia10
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I was using Netscape Communicator as it was good at email. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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timark_uk
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Location: Belfast
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We had internal e-mail at that time. Trying for the life of me to recall what it was ... it'll come to me. Mark
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Amnesia10
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Was it a forerunner of Outlook? or Outlook itself? _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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timark_uk
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It certainly wasn't Outlook. It was a standalone application similar to Squirrelmail but not actually Squirrelmail. This is gonna drive me mad now. *laugh* Mark
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am
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Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I never heard of that program. Outlook was out around mid 90's which might have been used in some places. Though prior to Windows's there were loads of alternatives. It was almost a golden age for software startups. I used DR-Dos and memory managers. The numbers of times you could restart your machine to optimise that first 640kb of memory. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am
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It wasn't Pegasus Mail, also known as Pmail, was it? That was quite popular at the time and also the first email client I used at work. There was a DOS and Windows version available and I seem to recall it was quite good. Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2 _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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Still going. The bloke who used to develop it gave up a few years ago I think but it carries on as an open source (ish) client. There was also Eudora, which I think died a few years back. The market for 'full fat' email clients that aren't Outlook rather collapsed as webmail clients have improved in functionality. The next gen of webmail stuff (OWA 2013 and Gmail's next revamp) are ruddy scarey. In a HTML5 browser, OWA 2013 is actually more functional than Outlook 2013.
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timark_uk
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Location: Belfast
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It bloody was, yes! Last night I kept thinking unicorn, but just knew it wasn't that. Ta muchly, John. (8+D Mark
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am
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Location: Manchester.
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Always happy to help!  Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2 _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker Sorry I'll behave now. Promise
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