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Some things were better back in the day. E-mail could not be invented today, it would be a mix of incompatible mail system like Facebook mail, Google mail, Appl
by sorenjan 6y ago
Some things were better back in the day. E-mail could not be invented today, it would be a mix of incompatible mail system like Facebook mail, Google mail, Apple mail, Slack mail, some distributed open source mail nobody used, etc.
- meepmorp 6y agoGo read the SMTP and related RFCs and see if you still think that email back in the day wasn’t already a mix of incompatible systems. The parts about address formats alone was quite an eye opener for me.
- brian_cunnie 6y agoYes, I remember IBM had its own email system back in the early 80's when I worked there, AT&T had its own in the later 80's. Even Prodigy/Compuserve/AOL had proprietary email systems (IIRC) with internet email bolted on. And getting email to the internet at large was no mean feat: I remember having to do a slew of UUCP addressing to get an email from AT&T to the internet (something along the lines of "astevens@redhill3!ihnp4@mit.edu). It was the wild west.
- macintux 6y agoI applied for a sysadmin job at BBN in the late 90s, and X.400 knowledge was listed in the description. Thankfully that turned out to be a red herring.
- baq 6y agoemail wouldn't be invented by private institutions today because nobody in their right mind would willingly get rid of their moat... it'd take government regulation to get there and you know how efficient that would be. technical problems are easy in comparison.