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World Service,1 min

How to Send an Email

BBC World Service Archive

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Still relying on the post? This item from 1997 describes the benefits of email in its early days. It reassures us that "a note from Madras to London, for example, can take minutes instead of days" to arrive at its destination. This clip is from the programme Computers at Work which first broadcast in July 1997. Picture: Screenshot of email inbox, Credit: Thinkstock

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