21 Things Anybody Under 16 Won't Believe About How We Used The Internet

You’ve Got Mail!

Keeping in mind that paper mail was still very much an everyday thing just a decade or so ago, email used to have an entirely different usage. Since bills came with the paper mail, email was considered fun and was used for entertainment and communication purposes only. There was hardly any spam mail back then either, so whenever people heard that familiar ‘You’ve got mail!’ after signing in, they knew it was something interesting. It meant that somebody had decided to write them a letter and send it through this new, exciting thing called the internet. There were no online flyers or advertisements, and there were also no annoying emails from your boss (if he needed you, he called you on your landline ten times). It is truly a wonder to think just how much the internet has changed over the last twenty years.