Slashdot.org

     
 

Send Mail to the Future
1999-08-05 23:57:24


Net Flotsam
 
I would disarm the entire world, because it would be cool to see people have massive battles using only their teeth and nails. Those of us who floss regularly would soon rule the earth!
-- Mr. Bad

 

Attention all Bad People of the Future, I've recently discovered a cool new service on the Web that let's you send email INTO THE FUTURE. It's from the crazy Dave Winer guy over at Userland Software.

So, yeah, you give it a date in the future -- like the year 2138 -- and a message, and it will sit there waiting... and then it will send the email off to a person of your choosing. IN THE FUTURE!!! Imagine that! You could send email to your extropian "bush robot" self in the year 4960 when you'll probably be orbiting a distant star, sucking down energy. And you would say to yourself, "Wow, I sent that to myself back before the second millenium!"

Another thing to know about "Mail to the Future" is that it's highly ADVANCED and FUTURISTIC. Check out the "Tech Info" link, which explains how it works. It's all setup to be used via this crazy thing called XML-RPC (Remote Procedure Call), which allows developers to make their own custom interfaces to it on their very own web sites and whatnot.

Over.  End of Story.  Go home now.

hundred@pigdog.org


comments powered by Disqus
 
     

 

C L A S S I C   P I G D O G

GNUisance
by El Snatcher, Mr. Bad

Brother Wayne Lays Down the Truth
by Flesh

Skunk School -- Learn Why Not To Keep Skunks As Pets
by El Snatcher & Ms. BunnyPenny

Vacationing from Somnambulant Narrow Realities
by Negative Nancy

08-01

El Destino

Amazon's secret: incest in the Kindle ad?

08-01

El Destino

Slut Walk! Sexy feminist protest, or invaders from Mars?

04-25

Daemon Agent

The Quest for the Best Cheap Beer in a Can

04-25

Eugene Leitl

Beverage science at its finest

04-16

El Destino

YouTube punishes copyright offenders with animated pirate cat

04-09

Baron Earl

Poll shows that almost half of Mississippi's Republicans think interracial marriage should be illegal

04-07

Baron Earl

Commodore64 redux - now with Linux

04-06

El Destino

George Takei demonstrates why he should be playing Spider-Man

04-01

El Destino

High school students sacrifice chickens to improve their batting average

03-31

Baron Earl

Creating a wall-hangable computer from an Ikea shadow box frame

03-26

Eugene Leitl

Spock + octopus

03-26

Baron Earl

Justice Department sends borrower to jail, declines to prosecute Countrywide CEO

03-26

Baron Earl

BBC News covers SXSW Dorkbot

03-24

Baron Earl

How to Identify a Chupacabra

03-21

JRoyale

My Fucking Job is Unbelievable

03-20

Baron Earl

Absinthe documentary

03-20

Baron Earl

UFO over Oswego

03-20

Baron Earl

Stone-washed cyclocomputer

03-15

JRoyale

Can She Taste the Roofies?

03-13

JRoyale

Pizza Delivery Instructions

More Quickies...