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“It only takes a few minutes to send or receive a couple of pages of text.”

Nearly 40 years ago the BBC’s Lesley Judd demonstrated the marvels of mobile email in a report recently added to the BBC Archive YouTube channel. Sending and receiving email on the go in 1986 required a briefcase full of gear, a payphone, and more patience than many of us can now muster.

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