I am getting literally dozens of those emails coming into catch-all email every day for the last couple of months. Which just makes it that much harder to wade through and find the actual emails among all the C1AL1S and V1 Agra spam.

These ones really are lazy though. The ones I am getting just say something like "An old friend has sent you an online greeting". Even if I were prepared to believe that someone I knew in school had managed to track me down, I would be MORE LIKELY to think it was some sort of a scam or virus than if it was just random.

As an added bonus, I know exactly who it is that is violating their email disclosure policy (thanks to signing up with unique emails for every online service). These ones are all coming in to blockbuster@ and citibank@, and I will give you one guess as to the only place I have ever actually typed those addresses -and only once each, on the sign-up forms.

 

I just got back from counseling summer camp, and let me tell you, it is a pain separating the spam emails with jpg viruses attached that say PICS ;D, from the kids that actually do send such emails, with jpg attachments, and with the same subjecct line.

 

Was... was the internet around in 1993? The date says 1993-2007. Obviously some sort of computer network has been around for decades, but up until the late 90's internet useage and home computers were expensive as hell.

So if you were fortunate enough to have internet access, would you expel precious time from your 5 or 10 free hours per month (afterwards you were charged 3 or 4 bucks per hour) sending an online greeting card? Hell, did greeting card web sites even exist back then? If they did, how did they make any profit? Ad based revenue for such a tiny userbase?

I'm confused, but I'm also 24 years old, born in 1983, so the first ten years of my life are a little foggy. Perhaps teh interweb was more frequently used in '93 than I remember.

 

The web was first conceived in 1990, first made public in 1991 but didn't really start to take off until the Mosaic browser in 1993, which allowed graphical content on web pages etc.

So the chances of this greeting card company being around since '93 is very very low. More likely any early card companies wouldn't have started until around 95-97 - there's no point being able to send a greeting card unless you have someone to send it to.