The Cloud
I’m thinking about e-mailing some of my old e-mail addresses. I have some addresses that I no longer use that lay out there somewhere in the proverbial cloud. Are they still receiving messages? Millions of messages urging someone, anyone to buy Viagra and a watch and a college degree? Oh those old domain names. Pipeline which became Mindspring which became Earthlink; hell for one brief not-so-shining moment I even had an AOL account though only until the free hours on the CD I got in the mail ran out. The crazy, heady 1990s, where have they gone? How many dead mailboxes are out there just accumulating mail? How many mailboxes of dead people are out there accumulating messages? I know I have a couple of e-mail addresses for dead people. What would happen if I sent them a note? Anything? Can you imagine that there are probably thousands of computers out there in that cloud (funny that they call the Internet a “cloud” now because it is an almost too perfect description of the tri...