Those of you who know me (and if you're reading this and don't know me, how did you find it and I'm sure you have better things to do ;-) know that I am still a huge fan of PocketMail. It combined a very simple UI with corner to corner coverage. Virtually anywhere you had a phone, you had coverage thanks to the Acoustic Mode technology. Acoustic Modems had been around. I saw my first acousitc modem when I was a boy at my Godparents house. They had two boys similar in age to me and my brother and lived on a large property in Woodside. The families would spend a lot of time together at teh pool, riding bikes, horses, camping out and generally having a great childhood. These gys also had this thingcalled and Apple. I don't know the Apple lineage very well but it had to be one of the first in circa 1973-75 ?? Anyhow, they also had an acoustic modem and called into a "Bulletin Board". Relavance? None. Juat a fond childhood memory and a brief introduction to how to dial a number, hear the squeals and stick the phone reciever in the two foam cups... same as PocketMail.
Why all this now? I saw a great article on TechCrunch today and I began to reminisce ;-)
Back to work...
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