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Grandmothers used to love email. Mine had some sort of 'email appliance' for years that was basically a keyboard with a phone modem and an alphanumeric LCD scr
by liability 8y ago
Grandmothers used to love email. Mine had some sort of 'email appliance' for years that was basically a keyboard with a phone modem and an alphanumeric LCD screen. Basically a 90s era terminal, dedicated to email.
It was dead simple, much easier for the proverbial grandmother than even a modern iPad with the Facebook app.
- pdonis 8y ago> Grandmothers used to love email. Sure, until grandmother's email started to fill up with spam, making it unusable. I think that is a big part of what killed the kind of dirt simple email you describe. Now you can still use email, but it's not dirt simple any more. The other thing that I think stopped grandmother from using email is that all of her grandkids grew up on social media, and if they even know what email is, they think it's too uncool to use. So grandmother has no choice if she wants to communicate with them.
- adrianN 8y agoHitting the "Junk" button in Thunderbird is not so hard and the filter catches most spam after a while.
- bacon_waffle 8y agoPocketmail[1]. There was a fairly brief period of time when those were great for emailing out updates from backpacking adventures, perhaps to an early blog. Of course, their utility relied on available (pay)phones, and they were only good for text. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketMail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketMail
- fyfy18 8y agoThere's a great review from 2000 linked from that page: http://www.dansdata.com/pocketmail.htm http://www.dansdata.com/pocketmail.htm