You've Got Podcast: A Political Farewell to AOL Dial-Up Internet Service
There was a time, decades ago, when politicians where astounded every time they went online and discovered – to their glee – they had mail.
Like Harry Reid – here's the Democratic Senator from Nevada on October 27th, 1999:
"Today, it's hard for me to comprehend what has taken place in the advancement of science. At home at my computer, I go home at night and see if I have received any e-mail on my computer. It is easy to do. I open my computer, and it says, ‘'You’ve got mail.' I open that up and find out who has contacted me by email, and it is like magic. I press a button, and I can reply to…
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