Certainly this is like mid 1990s, we did have the web and the internet but things were slow and it just wasn't really conducive to actually finding things quickly unless you really gave some thought to the problem.

它有些像20世纪90年代，当然我们有网络和互联网,但是做事情很慢,在快速查找东西的时候不是很有效,除非我们对这个问题真正深入思考了。

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That file was electronic message, so suddenly in about 1971, we had e-mail. So an e-mail was pretty much the major use of the internet for the next 20 years.

那种文件就是电子消息，如此突然的，约在,1971年，我们有了电子邮件，电子邮件,基本上是此后20年互联网的主要运用形式。

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