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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by mywittyname on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:35PM (#15418115)
You've Got Mail came out in 1998 and it was a box office hit.

People knew what email was for several years before that.

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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by reaperducer on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:20PM (#15419038)
But "You've Got Mail" wasn't about e-mail. It was about AOL.

Remember it took years for people to realize that there was more out there than just AOL.

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