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Element 52

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M
Message

Send words to someone.

email · text message · voice note

First known

Corrected

1965CTSS MAIL (Tom Van Vleck and Noel Morris), added as a command at MIT.

See also: Real-time console messages on SDC's Q-32 and CTSS, 1963.

August 1965. Popular first: Ray Tomlinson (1971), who sent the first network mail.

The popular first is later. This one comes from a source someone opened. The source.

  • ReadingValue

Specimen № 52 — operate freely

Write to Ana. Rewrite all you like, then send. Then send another.

Fig. 52 — Message

000 readings · idle

Down the Write column

  1. it followsTType
  2. it targetsFiFill in
  3. it remembersAtAnnotate
  4. it connectsMMessage
  5. it guessesCeComplete
  6. it actsDtDraft

Read down and Type gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Message takes.

  • email
  • text message
  • voice note