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Title: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: sam on April 16, 2010, 00:43

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Late last year, getting a Google Wave invite was reminiscent of getting a Cabbage Patch Kid in 1983. It was the newest gizmo everyone just had to have. As a geek, I was one of the kids begging the loudest. Thankfully, one of our readers from across the pond (Paul Howard, thanks!) sent me an invite, and I cleared my schedule for the product that was going to change the way I communicate. Only, it didn’t.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/wave-goodbye-e-mail

I still don't get it.

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Baz on April 16, 2010, 08:03

what is it....just another instant messaging piece of kit ???

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Rik on April 16, 2010, 09:03

I still am not sure, Baz, which bodes ill for its future.

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: davy51 on April 16, 2010, 14:04

Its an all in one system

IM,email,chat,and most social sites

http://www.google.com/support/wave/

If anyone wants to check it out you can request an account

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: sam on April 16, 2010, 14:20

I've used it a few times and though it has some cool features - e.g. mathematical function showing etc, its just not going to replace my normal tools and it really just hasn't with many at all.

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Simon on April 16, 2010, 21:45

I think email will be around for a long time yet.

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Rik on April 17, 2010, 11:23

I celebrate 25 years of using email this year...

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Simon on April 17, 2010, 13:54

 :woo:

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Rik on April 17, 2010, 16:02

Back in '85, I discovered the one fatal flaw in my cunning plane. I didn't know anyone else with an email account. ;D

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: sam on April 17, 2010, 16:08

 :laugh: :laugh:

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Simon on April 17, 2010, 16:53

You had a cunning plane?  Did it fly itself then?  :)x

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Rik on April 17, 2010, 16:54

No, it had a pilot called Baldrick. ;)

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Simon on April 17, 2010, 16:58

:pmsl:

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Clive on April 17, 2010, 18:28

You were a pioneer Rik! 

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Rik on April 17, 2010, 18:31

I was Clive, and it was an expensive facility back then. :)

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Clive on April 17, 2010, 20:05

Bulletin board access back then was charged at national rates and was just 9 bp/s if I remember correctly.  I used to belong to one called Starbase 1 and half the time it was impossible to log into it. 

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Rik on April 17, 2010, 20:07

That's right. My phone bills were horrendous.  :ack:

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: sam on April 17, 2010, 22:11

Quote from: Clive on April 17, 2010, 20:05

Bulletin board access back then was charged at national rates and was just 9 bp/s if I remember correctly.  I used to belong to one called Starbase 1 and half the time it was impossible to log into it. 

just like here a few years ago, eh?

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Simon on April 17, 2010, 22:43

I remember dial up at 1p per minute.  :)

Title: Re: Wave Goodbye to E-mail?
Post by: Clive on April 17, 2010, 23:11

Quote from: sam on April 17, 2010, 22:11

just like here a few years ago, eh?

Those were the days! D

Quote from: Simon on April 17, 2010, 22:43

I remember dial up at 1p per minute.  :)

Cheap at half the price.  That's what my AOL connection cost.