For what it’s worth, I sent this story to a friend the other day, who’s probably ~50 now and was very active on the Internet in the 90s—thinking he’d find it amusing if he hadn’t come across it before
Not only did he remember this story contemporaneously, but he said he was the recipient of the test-email for a particular city mentioned in the article!
This is someone of high-integrity whom I trust, and makes me more confident this happened, even if some details are smoothed over as described
For what it’s worth, I sent this story to a friend the other day, who’s probably ~50 now and was very active on the Internet in the 90s—thinking he’d find it amusing if he hadn’t come across it before
Not only did he remember this story contemporaneously, but he said he was the recipient of the test-email for a particular city mentioned in the article!
This is someone of high-integrity whom I trust, and makes me more confident this happened, even if some details are smoothed over as described