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submitted 1 year ago by Provider@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

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[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

You were excited to get email because it was almost always from a human being who put meaning and intent into their message. It was like getting a handwritten letter compared to all the random terms of service update emails from a service you haven't used in four years and emails from a service you didn't sign up for because someone else thinks your email address is their email address and the outright spam in the filter.

[-] prachisrivas@masto.ai 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@Mechanismatic @rayman30

Yes, agree and remember. I lived in very many different places in the late '90s. Often, the only method of communication was email. No landlines sometimes and certainly no cell phones.

I can't remember the last time I got a personal email. I get some rather lovely ones from my colleagues, but a personal email is a letter, and nearly as extinct.

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