Given that the protocols and therefore clients for email today appear as dated and clunky, should we regard them as outlived and ready for the dustbin (and move on to eg WhatsApp), or should we take the archaeological view and regard them as artifacts from the childhood of world wide web?

#www #email #mailers #protocol #archaeology #cyberarchaeology

#Archaeogaming citation of the day:

Rodney Harrison. 2009. “Excavating Second Life: Cyber-Archaeologies, Heritage and Virtual Communities.” Journal of Material Culture 14.1: 75–106.

#DigitalArchaeology #CyberArchaeology #SecondLife #DigitalEthnography