Retired Microsoft engineer Davepl takes you through the great email storm of 1997 on Microsoft campus with the story of what happened, how it started, and how Microsoft engineers eventually found and fixed the problem. Plus a followup 10 years later in the Microsoft lunch room. 0:00 Start 0:49 Livestream Announcement 1:18 Mass Messaging 2:00 The Phone Tree 3:20 The Town Crier 4:15 The BBS 5:00 Microsoft Email 6:15 Microsoft Email Aliases 7:45 The Initial Email 9:30 Read and Delivery Receipts 11:00 Microsoft Email Outage 12:30 Microsoft Corpnet Down 13:00 The Microsoft Cafeteria Larry O was also at Microsoft at the time and was even closer. You can find his story here: https://www.tavres.com/microsoft-memories-bedlam-dl3/