JA WestenbergEmail is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.
Jeff Miller (orange hatband)@Daojoan Email: it's older than the Domain Name System.
mbpazRemember "bang paths"? ( host1 ! host2 ! username )
Raise your hands, all of you who had an email address *without* an "@" sign.
I did. But I was young them, and now I'm 50.
ChrisR@mbpaz @jmeowmeow @Daojoan I (briefly) had an email address with an @ but also a bang path! But my first email address would have been VaxMail, I can't quite remember the format, but maybe something like NT::cccar. Later, it was extended across Australia via the "InfoPSI" network! See https://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/australian-tertiary-education-networking-1988/
