3 ms·
> Email is not an evolution of papermail It definitely is! So many people get so many things exclusively by email that they would otherwise get by mail. > the
by dataflow 5y ago
> Email is not an evolution of papermail
It definitely is! So many people get so many things exclusively by email that they would otherwise get by mail.
> the internet is not an evolution of the telephone
Weren't dial-up and then DSL quite literally evolution of the telephone connections? And aren't VoIP and other internet communication platforms displacing a large use case for the telephone?
- selfhoster11 5y agoI was just quoting these sentences from the parent comment.
- LocalH 5y agoI wouldn't call them an evolution of POTS so much as an overlay. Dial-up standards were a form of encoding that allowed a digital payload to be delivered over lines intended for analog signals. DSL is more or less a purified version of that.
- dataflow 5y agoWhat would constitute an evolution? Would voice calls gaining video capability count...? Mail that can include digital attachments...?