The first email Jay ever sent me
The date was 3/9/91. We had just installed the Quickmail email system across the country. (The first ad agency to ever do so, thank you very much. Remember, the first browser for the World Wide Web wasn't even released until 1993, a full two years later!)
Here, ladies and gentlemen, is the first email Jay Chiat ever sent to me (or probably to anyone, for that matter.) I took a picture of it and tucked it away in a safe place, as I knew it would prove useful some day. I think that day is now.
Don't get excited, it isn't anything spectacular. In typical Jay-fashion, it was short and to the point. I believe he had just given me a paper memo (yes, paper!) and asked me to distribute it to everyone in the office via Quickmail. It may have been the infamous "no more paper memos" memo. Whatever; here it is, as if preserved in electronic amber. I believe I had printed this out and posted it to my office wall to record the moment for posterity, and to bully you, by his example, into using email. (Remember when I banned the use of pink While-You-Were-Out slips and made you get your messages through Quickmail?)
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One of my favorite memories, when we first got email and EVERYONE had to "do it themselves". I kept getting emails from Bob Wolf in NY. He was always YELLING AT ME. So I called him and asked why he always yelled at me in email and why he was so pissed. He said he didn't know what I was talking about. I pointed out that he used only capital letters and so I assumed he was mad at me. Very quietly, he said, "I don't know how to make it stop writting in "caps". Steve had to do ALOT of training!
Posted by: Sharon Stanley | June 11, 2003 11:12 PM
Do any of you remember the custom forms that we could make and use on quickmail? I recall the famous "Bomb" form that gave the illusion that your system had crashed when you checked that particular message. There was a lot of lost work due to re-starting our Macs on error before that form was banned. : )
Posted by: Theresa Babington | June 12, 2003 08:38 AM