What was your first email system?
 

Where did you cut your teeth on email? What do you use as reference point?

edit: oh! I left of a generic POP account, and Compuserve

Re: What was your first email system?
 

You also lesft out "IBM mainframe". On the other hand, you haven't left out anything, since you included "other".

I "voted" UNIX based, since that was the first real email system I really used. I vaguely remember having email on an IBM mainframe (370/165) in the early 80's,but that was only theory to me. I had no one to write to. I just enjoyed looking at the list of hosts one could send to (that was not more than a few pages long. I did exchange messages with friends on the same computer, but I don't think that system was really email.

Prodigy, which was later called Prodigy Classic because Prodigy Internet came out.

Compuserve. Since the poster forgot to put it as a poll option, I voted other.

I think it was Prodigy (pre internet) where they gave you a long letter/number address. It came on a floppy disk when I upgraded my modem to a 1200 baud. Then again, it may have been through a BBS where you could download software. That was back in the days where you used a gopher, like Archie or Veronica, to get to the outside world. (I think that's what they were called IIRC?) That might have been before Prodigy came out when I think I was still using a 300 baud modem? :)

Sherry

I voted other as my first email was my ISP provider email. My second one was my msn/hotmail account and my third one was my yahoo. I think my fourth account was one of my fastmail member accounts.

:D Susan.

This might be the only poll here that hotmail has a chance to come out on top of. :D

I chose other.
My first personal email was with geocities. I signed up for their free webpages and I got an email with it. :D

Other, as it was an ISP account. I moved to Hotmail as soon as it opened because at that time, my ISP e-mail sometimes took longer to arrive than snailmail. Then I went back to ISP mail when I got a better ISP. Over time I got to prefer web based access, though, because of wanting to be able to get my mail from other computers, including other people's computers, so even IMAP wouldn't work as well as web based. Tried tons of web based solutions. Stuck with Fastmail so far.

I believe I was with my ISP first. Then the first web-based account I had was an Excite one, I think.

Mine was AOL, yuCK!!! That was around 6-7 years ago. I had AOL and it was a nightmare in hell.

It's not on the list, but my first was Telex, in addition to several BBS mail systems.

I started emailing people using a webtv (now msntv) account. It was good for me since I didn't know much about computer. Very simple to use. Soon, I had enuff basics to movt unto computers.

My first e-mail account was with an Internet-connected dial-up BBS back in 1994 that eventually became an ISP a few years later.

I had a DEC Micro (PDP 11/23) on my desk at work (in 1981) It had a 10 MB hard drive and a 300 baud modem. I did send a text file to another operator (all the buildings were hooked together on leased phone lines) This was a network that controlled the ventilation systems on a number of what were then known as high tech buildings Dare I call my text message (to another operator) an email :) If I remember correctly, a guy called Bill Gates was using a similar machine, and started to write a program that eventually became known as MSDOS. edit... deleted repeat word