Years ago I was in a bit of corporate contention when I installed email within our office. The comments were that we already had fax machines and intra-office mail. What would we use email for. Not too much later a large client, who had some proprietary internal email solutions, mentioned that there was this thing called 'internet mail' and that perhaps we should try using that to communicate. While on the phone I assured them that we could handle that. After hanging up the phone a couple of us just started at each other and a huge poster of Microsoft application software. This was probably around 1995.
Shortly we figured out a solution that had a dial up service which connected to our mail server and periodically uploaded and downloaded email. That evolved into the situation where we had tens of thousands of email moving about every day, effectively replacing memos, letters and phone calls. Of course we also spend thousands on spam solutions, too.
After almost 20 years of checking my company email inbox many times per day today I deleted that account on my iPhone 5. It's strange. Over the years the personal relationships changed and evolved and some of the interaction was replaced by those humorous, purposeful and annoying email threads. Perhaps we should have just kept talking to each other.
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