Remote Work Learnings From The 1990s Until Today

The very first remote work experience I remember was in 1999: I was 19 years old, we still paid the internet by the minute and modems screamed their infamous dial-up tones into the room. I sent the draft of a letter via email (sic!) to someone, 100 km away, for review. We discussed it on the (land line) phone while he was making edits to it on the PC. The way towards distributed teams was paved much earlier than we initially realised. And here is one of the many accounts to recount the story.