Email 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.
@Daojoan Email: it's older than the Domain Name System.

@jmeowmeow @Daojoan

Remember "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.

@mbpaz @jmeowmeow @Daojoan With numbers?
@annehargreaves @jmeowmeow @Daojoan no numbers required. Too few users for name collisions.
@mbpaz @jmeowmeow @Daojoan My first email address was a bunch of numbers.