By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month.
I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
Email cannot die in the near future because of its universal acceptance.
I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.
I was working in email in the early days in the late '80s, and people weren't using electronic communications at all in the way we take for granted today.
You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.
I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
I think email's going to be around for, like, another 10,000 years. It's a great way to cross organizational boundaries.
