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Comment on Ask HN: Your very first e-mail address. When did you get it and why?

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My first wasn't accessible from public Internet (defense contractor).

My second started in 1986, well before we had domain addressing, so a sender had to know 1) our corporate hostname, 2) my username, and 3) a well-known host to route through (like uunet, pyramid, decwrl, etc.)

The convention for publishing my address, therefore, was

  {pyramid|uunet|decwrl}!infmx!aland
I was actually the first person in the company to put my email address on my business cards! I still have some from then.
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