recent graduate of Cybernetics, Mathematics career, almost 20 years now, one of my" homework "on center Working where I started my working life was passing emails. At that time, the "email" had not yet touched the door of the center and the few people there used "mail", wrote messages in leaves. We got them then "the girls" for the move from the computer center of the Faculty of Cybernetics, Mathematics (and changed the name), on the hill university of Havana.
was not the worst thing to deal with the handwriting of each person, but learning the content of those texts. For me it was very painful and I did notice it when there was response, usually memorized to account for the same where, sometimes, I swore would be the last time he drives to and serve. However, the authors of those prehistoric emails and prefer not care that "the girls" were serious and responsible as my colleague and I (still I am, of course), we did get the messages to their recipients. Takes forever to type all those leaves in the elementary electronic messaging program that was available to everyone. I came to know very well the intricacies of pine .
We are constantly asked at work if they had "gotten" the message, or if they had "back haul", or if they had answered, and so on. The email account was a single for the whole school. I knew by heart, email address, who had responded, to whom, when we went there the next time.
First we did a once a day, later we were almost begging us every second, desperate to know "if there was something in the mailbox. The situation improved when we take messages, as typed by the same authors, in 3.5-inch diskettes (such as the photo at the start of post). I still keep a couple of copies in a drawer ...
Shortly after the email came to my workplace. "Physically, I mean. From the "computer group" we could send and receive messages and no longer had to walk to the Faculty. Logically, its use grew, and the time that we devote to tareíta unfortunately too. But we'll come to solve very fast: we taught them to other mail details and sit on a computer that will use it themselves.
We took off a big weight off ... but only for a time: professional jealousy (or others) made the director we touched the door one day to demand that we were aware of the content of messages sent and received by one of the workers of the center. When she finished talking I said no, that the messages were personal and I was not going to read what others write, without their consent. That if he wanted to, that he came to sit at the computer and read one by one.
did not like that, of course, but that did not transcend (so I guess it was the "other" jealousy). A I do not like to see the face of censorship first computer. That started in my school computer surveillance, abuse of power by some that determine, for others, what can be done and what not without others' knowledge. Over time
remember even the smallest detail of all the events we did, when email working paper by hand with calligraphy and diversity of above issues. Cuba today is one of the worst enemies of the Internet world , where e-mail or escape official censorship at all levels.
Although, to be fair, "not at all levels": a very good friend who lives in Cuba a while ago told me that he had no more e-mail because the counting team leader, member of Communist Party "recommended" to the direction of the center that not everyone "needed" email and the connection was fairly slow to let others use the mail, especially for matters unrelated to their job content. Everyone knew, however, that what it was intended to have more opportunity and fast connection to "pull down" the videos later selling pirated CDs on the black market business in which it lived.
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