The short history of email is the history of the Internet’s ‘killer application’; an application that couldn’t upscale to the commercial realities of the global stage. Spam killed email, volume killed email, chat killed email, RSS feeds, social software, wikis, and blogs killed email. For most people, what was once a tool that promised a networked conviviality, became the mind-bog of the information age.
RIP Email 2006
the death of email
...at first it was sexy, then it became banal. At first it promised that you would be noticed, then it promised that you would be ignored. At first email gave you access to exotic places and important people, then it became the least effective way to communicate.
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