Do you remember PINE?
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008The e-mail “interface” that is. Back when I was a freshman, using your student e-mail account was a bit of a chore. For some reason I decided to see if I could still log in through the terminal and it still works! This was PINE:
I have 184 messages to read…
This is why nobody used their student e-mail account. Well, that and the ridiculous e-mail addresses they gave us: z_jamespj@titan.sfasu.edu. Apparently in 2000 we weren’t worried about identity theft — my student ID was my SSN.










