Word: mailboxes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grandmother lived in a fourth-floor walk-up--I suppose you could call it a tenement building. I would run down the three flights of stairs to get the mail out of our little brass mailbox. Every now and again there would be this small white envelope with the words THE WHITE HOUSE on it, and my 9-year-old heart fluttered. It would be a formal reply, and they came in those wonderful envelopes...
...little ad into almost every active bulletin board on the Net -- some 5,500 in all -- thus ensuring that it would be seen by millions of Internet users, not just once but over and over again. Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community, compares the experience with opening the mailbox and finding "a letter, two bills and 60,000 pieces of junk mail...
...provocation so bald-faced and deliberate that it could not be ignored. And all over the world, Internet users responded spontaneously by answering the Spammers with angry electronic- mail messages called "flames." Within minutes, the flames -- filled with unprintable epithets -- began pouring into Canter and Siegel's Internet mailbox, first by the dozen, then by the hundreds, then by the thousands. A user in Australia sent in 1,000 phony requests for information every day. A 16-year-old threatened to visit the couple's "crappy law firm" and "burn it to the ground." The volume of traffic grew...
...It’s great, but how many pieces of mail do you get in your mailbox every day?” Lessin said. “I know my mailbox is chock-full of things that I just don’t read...
...acclaim from Rushmore brought an avalanche of offers, almost all of which Murray ignored. In a typically idiosyncratic move, he decided to go agentless in 1999. (Michael Ovitz represented him until 1995.) He has since replaced a powerful talent agency with an automated voice mailbox. He gives out the 800 number sparingly and monitors the messages from his home overlooking the Hudson River in upstate New York. "I check in regularly," he says. But then adds, "Sometimes I don't check in. Things get busy. I got stuff to do. But you just can't have the phone ringing...