Email Is 40 Years Old
from the 40-years-young dept
For a few years now, we've been joking about how email is for old people. Studies have increasingly been showing that the younger generation prefers text messaging, instant messaging and various social networking private message systems to good old fashioned email. So it's worth noting that sometime this month, email apparently turned 40 years old. So perhaps it's showing its age, which is why the kids today don't bother with it.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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E-mail is so old now
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I use a tachyons modem. I get all my packages before I order them.
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http://www.reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
Did you print that already?
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I think it's conception was 40 years ago...
That is when I would claim email was born.
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You should be receiving something from their attorney in 3...2...1...
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And another decade before everyone got onboard with that. Remember UUCP?
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My neutrino modem was supposed to do that too but it looks like it was just hype.
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Re: Neutrinos?
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Much better than the old "Schrödinger's cat" models, because then all my packages were simultaneously broken and non-broken. Very confusing until the wave function collapsed into one state.
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Did you opt for the Heisenberg package tracking option?
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Next time buy the Schrödinger shipping insurance, it will either be paid out ... or not. And for some reason they don't insure cats.
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Add into this that regular e-mail without encryption is unsafe, and you have another reason why it is unpopular.
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Yes, your message demonstrates that.
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And spelling, obviously.
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I took a beating from the captcha's, and after 10 or 15 tries I got it right.
I hope I'm not the only old dude who have problems with the distorted images in a 24" screen.
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I took a beating from the captcha's, and after 10 or 15 tries I got it right.
I hope I'm not the only old dude who have problems with the distorted images in a 24" screen.
Captchas for email?
Web sites like Hotmail and Gmail are just web interfaces to the email system. There are many stand-alone email programs that run on your computer and connect to the mail servers directly, such as Mozilla Thunderbird. They can even be configured to work with Gmail and probably Hotmail.
When sending email with these programs, there's no captcha to deal with. Sometimes when I send a message through Gmail, it asks me to re-type my password, but that's all. My ISP email address never asks since I told it to save the password.
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Not even for the creation of it, if you use a local email client instead of webmail.
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I still find it odd...
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And kids nowadays don't know the fun of adding a bunch of your friends in the To: field and doing a mail chat ;)
The kids also don't have issues with their workplaces blocking everything but their mails lmao
E-mail ftw ;)
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