How a one person stopped all email communication by accident as a new employee in the 90s.
The Great Email Cloggage Incident of 1998
Back in the 1990’s email was a rare and new communication tool and the technology behind it was archaic compared to today. Imagine there was just a single server back then handing all of the email for a large company. The email was managed using then Lotus Notes on what was a state of the art network bandwidth back then, but also in contrast to today it was super prehistoric about on par with a shared ISDN line.
So this new employee joined the company and lives 20 miles from the main office. This new employee loved his work and was up late and up early working on new projects and on this one faithful morning he didn’t have a floppy disk to write out the file he had been working on and needed to take it to the office. This file was a mere 25MB. So this new employee figured, why not email it to themselves before they leave this morning to commute into…