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Re: Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules

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Post by dmd »

netsharc wrote: post #18
dmd wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. I give services like this - generally coded as someone's first "wow I know PHP now!" or the modern equivalent - approximately 5 years shelf life, at best . Whereas I have notes-to-future-me on my calendar that I put there 30 years ago .

What calendar system have you been using for 30 years, that's survived that long? I think I sent one of those "mails to the future" in the 90's, asking 2002 me how I am. I don't think it ever arrived, or the free email domain I was using ceased operating. Sheesh, anyone old enough to remember the services offering a free email address with a choice of maybe 50 domains in a dropdown?

Not the same one all that time, but I've always exported/imported when I have changed.

For the same reason, I have every email I've ever sent or received, going back to my 1988 FIDOnet account.

Re: Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules

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Post by Grisu_FTP »

Jach wrote: post #7

This reminded me of a more whimsical old service that used real snails to send email at some indeterminate time. Looks like their home page is still up but it's totally defunct: http://www.realsnailmail.net/ The only message I sent with it (or at least that made it through, maybe I sent more that I don't remember) was initiated in June 2008, at last collected by a snail in May 2011, and the snail Marko delivered it i…

THIS IS GREAT! Thank you for showing me :D

Re: Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules

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Post by KomoD »

netsharc wrote: post #18
dmd wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. I give services like this - generally coded as someone's first "wow I know PHP now!" or the modern equivalent - approximately 5 years shelf life, at best . Whereas I have notes-to-future-me on my calendar that I put there 30 years ago .

What calendar system have you been using for 30 years, that's survived that long? I think I sent one of those "mails to the future" in the 90's, asking 2002 me how I am. I don't think it ever arrived, or the free email domain I was using ceased operating. Sheesh, anyone old enough to remember the services offering a free email address with a choice of maybe 50 domains in a dropdown?

> Sheesh, anyone old enough to remember the services offering a free email address with a choice of maybe 50 domains in a dropdown?

Mail.com is still around and offers a lot of domains, though I think the amount of domains has reduced over the years.

Re: Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules

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Post by thenthenthen »

Jach wrote: post #7

This reminded me of a more whimsical old service that used real snails to send email at some indeterminate time. Looks like their home page is still up but it's totally defunct: http://www.realsnailmail.net/ The only message I sent with it (or at least that made it through, maybe I sent more that I don't remember) was initiated in June 2008, at last collected by a snail in May 2011, and the snail Marko delivered it i…

Classic net.art piece, thanks for bringing it up. The artists homepage: https://boredomresearch.net/

Re: Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules

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Post by pavel_lishin »

leshenka wrote: post #3

I hear about time capsule apps from time to time and my main concern about them is longevity. Will this application exist in say 10 years from now? 20? And even then will I be using the same email by then?

Forget 10 years, will it exist in May?
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