Friday, 31 August 2012

42-Year-Old email!

I totally just got an email from 1970; look! (I pinked out the other emails as a few of them were embarrassing!)


I took a picture of it, but when I looked for it on my computer, it wasn't there, then I looked back on my phone and IT HAD VANISHED.  I'm glad I took a picture of this otherwise everyone would think I had gone CRAZY!!!!

What the fudge is going on? Did they even have email in 1970? I have a couple of theories; both of which seem equally plausible:



Any other suggestions are welcome, but we all know it couldn't have been some kind of random glitch as iPhones never go wrong.




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6 comments:

  1. Denise31 August 2012 at 01:47

    I think they were trying to contact The Doctor...

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  2. Unknown31 August 2012 at 02:57

    01/01/1970 is the start date for UNIX time, which counts in seconds from that date. If a system is using that somewhere in its code and there is an error or a null value that creeps in somewhere, that's the date it could show up. It's like setting the UNIX time to zero, zero seconds since that date. So, probably just a computer screw up somewhere.

    That, or it could be a stray message from a Dr. Song, true ;)

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    1. The Singing Duck31 August 2012 at 11:25

      That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I mean, everyone's heard of time travel, but who's heard of UNIX time? Exactly. :)

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  3. Michael Angelico31 August 2012 at 06:55

    Hi Duck,

    Yeah it'll be something to do with Unix epoch time. Probably the Gmail app for iPhone received a message notification without the actual message, so everything was set to zero or null. That would mean your provider has a problem with the push technology used by Gmail.

    This, incidentally, has been my first un-funny comment on your blog. I'm working about 60 hours a week at the moment so my sense of humour is being stretched to the limit just trying to survive. We apologise for the inconvenience, normal transmission will be restored as soon as we know what normal is.

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  4. Michael Angelico31 August 2012 at 06:55

    Hi Duck,

    Yeah it'll be something to do with Unix epoch time. Probably the Gmail app for iPhone received a message notification without the actual message, so everything was set to zero or null. That would mean your provider has a problem with the push technology used by Gmail.

    This, incidentally, has been my first un-funny comment on your blog. I'm working about 60 hours a week at the moment so my sense of humour is being stretched to the limit just trying to survive. We apologise for the inconvenience, normal transmission will be restored as soon as we know what normal is.

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    1. The Singing Duck31 August 2012 at 11:23

      You guys are really harshing my mellow with all this computery stuff- are you honestly telling me that something called 'Unix epoch time' exists?!? Sounds like witchcraft to me! That email came from the past and everyone here knows it.

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