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Why are email addresses so complex? Who needs all that junk?
by avgcorrection 4y ago
Why are email addresses so complex? Who needs all that junk?
- tgv 4y agoHistory.
- avgcorrection 4y agoIn this moment I am enlightened.
- icedchai 4y agoIt's all legacy, tech debt from the early Internet days (and before.) My first email address was through a UUCP feed, back in 1991 or so. We used bang paths. My email was something like uunet!host2!host1!username.