By Jason Snell
August 31, 2018 9:41 PM PT
Applications Folder: MailPlane 4

To think there was a day when I was excited about email.
When I went to college, I got my first Internet access, and discovered that while we were banned from using the real-time chat protocol talk
, you could still have free instantaneous chats with friends by sending email back and forth. My first use of Internet email was, then, to send text messages via a unix command-line.
It was in the fall of 1992, at UC Berkeley, where I finally got email on my Mac, courtesy of a version of the free Eudora email app that was hacked to dial in to a command-line server, connect itself to your account, and download your mail directly. A few months later I got a legitimate internet dial-up account from the University and thus begun 25 years (!) and counting of reading email on the Mac.
At some point Eudora died, and at some point after that I finally gave up on it.…