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a digital scream into a void that politely screams back within one business day
means Electronic messages sent over the internet, typically the primary medium of modern work correspondence.
from A clipping of 'electronic mail,' which arrived in the 1970s alongside the early networked computer systems that birthed it. The 'e-' prefix — short for 'electronic' — then bred like rabbits, giving us e-commerce, e-books, and e-everything. Fun fact: people argued for decades over whether to write 'e-mail' or 'email,' a hyphen war the plain form eventually won.
- first message
- sent in 1971, content forgotten by its sender
- @ symbol
- chosen because the keyboard already had it
- daily volume
- over 300 billion sent worldwide each day
- unread count
- a horror genre disguised as productivity
- subject line
- the only part most people actually read
for instance
first email ever sent — ray tomlinson to himself, 1971, arpanet
gmail — google's email service launched april 1, 2004 with 1gb storage