It’s time to travel all the way back to 1986 to see what the folks on a BBC TV show called Micro Live thought about a futuristic and new technology called electronic mail, or email.

The hosts of the show talk to explain how email works and talked to people who were already using it at this early stage.

Hmmm, I wonder if this email thing ever caught on…

Check out the BBC Archive’s YouTube page for a deeper dive into the past!