Email can be slow. Last week, I got an email sent to me at the beginning of May. As I understand it, sometimes mail servers get overloaded and so store messages for later delivery. Kind of like the rare horror story of Lazy the Mailman storing his route's mail in the basement.
Today I noticed an email at the very top of my email client (my Inbox is sorted by date). Opening it, the send date was revealed to be:
That entered the Internet perhaps through another portal -- CompuServe, perhaps?
That moved from a mysterious mainframe computer, no doubt, onto a minicomputer of some sort, and then transfered by an unknown process to Direct Mail for Mac OS X.
That was able to predict the future, precisely 14,518 days in the future, of something of significance occurring on September 29, 2009. What might be the meaning hidden behind 1 - 4 - 5 - 1 - 8? Or through the patterned sequence 9 - 29 - 2009.
That somehow knew in an uncanny fashion that a company known in the future as "Catalog Data Solutions" would one day announce "the ability for any company to promote their online CAD models and drawings on 3DModelSpace."
Might 3DModelSpace be the bright future predicted to be perfected by technologists and foretold by the gasping Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines of the 1950s?
Not at all. The Fuller Brush salesman is at the door:
About 3DModelSpace.com
CAD model downloads are a proven way to lock-in your component products during the design phase and generate new sales when those products are built. 3DModelSpace was launched in 2008 as a search engine for designers and engineers to quickly find CAD models and drawings of the products they need. For manufacturers and distributors 3DModelSpace delivers high quality click-throughs by designers and engineers at highly relevant decision points during their design/product selection process. 3DmodelSpace reaches over 2,000,000 CAD users [the number is 250,000 earlier in the press release] because it is built directly into Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and is featured in the Autodesk Manufacturing Community. 3DModelSpace is a CAD model search engine, not a CAD library - it directs designers and engineers to your website where your brand is promoted, leads captured, CAD downloads generated and products sold. To have your CAD models included in 3DModelSpace visit www.3dmodelspace.com/promote
(Emphasis mine.)
Today I noticed an email at the very top of my email client (my Inbox is sorted by date). Opening it, the send date was revealed to be:
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:14:07 -0700A press release from nearly the pre-history of CAD. How exciting! An electronic document that was perhaps OCR'ed from paper to digital by a mysterious process.
That entered the Internet perhaps through another portal -- CompuServe, perhaps?
That moved from a mysterious mainframe computer, no doubt, onto a minicomputer of some sort, and then transfered by an unknown process to Direct Mail for Mac OS X.
That was able to predict the future, precisely 14,518 days in the future, of something of significance occurring on September 29, 2009. What might be the meaning hidden behind 1 - 4 - 5 - 1 - 8? Or through the patterned sequence 9 - 29 - 2009.
That somehow knew in an uncanny fashion that a company known in the future as "Catalog Data Solutions" would one day announce "the ability for any company to promote their online CAD models and drawings on 3DModelSpace."
Might 3DModelSpace be the bright future predicted to be perfected by technologists and foretold by the gasping Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines of the 1950s?
Not at all. The Fuller Brush salesman is at the door:
About 3DModelSpace.com
CAD model downloads are a proven way to lock-in your component products during the design phase and generate new sales when those products are built. 3DModelSpace was launched in 2008 as a search engine for designers and engineers to quickly find CAD models and drawings of the products they need. For manufacturers and distributors 3DModelSpace delivers high quality click-throughs by designers and engineers at highly relevant decision points during their design/product selection process. 3DmodelSpace reaches over 2,000,000 CAD users [the number is 250,000 earlier in the press release] because it is built directly into Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire and is featured in the Autodesk Manufacturing Community. 3DModelSpace is a CAD model search engine, not a CAD library - it directs designers and engineers to your website where your brand is promoted, leads captured, CAD downloads generated and products sold. To have your CAD models included in 3DModelSpace visit www.3dmodelspace.com/promote
(Emphasis mine.)
My record for email receipt was 3 years. I remember thinking, when requesting it to be resent (as hadn't arrived, "I bet they never sent it" :(
Posted by: RobiNZ | Sep 30, 2009 at 06:37 PM
Time is calculated and stored as the number of seconds since epoch which is midnight of Jan 1st 1970. Looks like the email header got corrupted during transit to your inbox and the date was set to null or 0, which when translated relative to your time zone will be a few hours before epoch.
Sorry, this is no blast from the past. This is more of a f**t from the present ;-)
Posted by: Deelip Menezes | Oct 01, 2009 at 11:09 AM