Comment by sheepscreek
4 days ago
Most *nix tools have their origins in the ‘70s-80s.
Email as a technology is ancient by today’s standards. SMTP protocol got established in 1982. Even sendmail dates as far back as the ‘70s.
4 days ago
Most *nix tools have their origins in the ‘70s-80s.
Email as a technology is ancient by today’s standards. SMTP protocol got established in 1982. Even sendmail dates as far back as the ‘70s.
This is a pretty good talk on the history of email: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGfahzt-4Q
https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20...
Another great article
And the earlier technology of homing pigeons goes back even further