Comment by MathMonkeyMan
4 months ago
Email clients would probably still parse URLs into links. People would click them. Then people would prefer links that didn't look like gobbledygook, so email clients would start supporting extensions like parsing of [markdown-style links](https://gobbledygook.com/ddkf878dfjlsfd). And then we would arrive at HTML.
> Then people would prefer links that didn't look like gobbledygook
Well, I can say with relative confidence that people prefer those links but _marketers_ prefer hxxps://awsmail.me/b64trustmebro/8675309== that leads who fucking knows where