Electronically yours: This may have seemed a perfectly acceptable ending to an email back in 1984. It was the pre-world wide web era; only early adopters owned computers and they had to enlist the help of cumbersome hardware, a box-shaped external modem, and telephones with rotary dials to make use of an exciting new feature of sending an email (or an “interactive videotex” as it was known back then). This 35 year-old British TV program features a tech-savvy couple Julian and Pat Green explaining the process step-by-step as it happened all those years ago (watch, runtime: 6:34).

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