Something haunting about this relic, like a skeleton in the desert, remnants from a trusting, hopeful and optimistic age.

People from just 20 years before would have marvelled at this wonderful utopian future... "Seriously, you can just send a message to POTUS using electronic mail?!" But only 30 years further on it looks like an object of mockery

Did this actually function or is the "no further correspondence" a clue that they piped this whole show to /dev/null after about a week?