The history of Lotus Notes and the influence of PLATO. A journey through long forgotten software genres and product categories.

https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusnotes.html

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LotusNotes

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@amoroso

This is kind of strange to me that people who never worked with a given software (author admits it) write articles about it.

At the time of Lotus Notes 4.6 it was much more performant and easy to maintain than Exchange.
I knew many big international companies that relied on Notes. Long after Exchange took the world people were still saying "I will send you a Note".

@as400 I used it only as a user.