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Originally Posted by medard
Remember this thing called E-Mail? That's so much better than snail mail. It's totaly avant-garde. You need to have that. So cool, costs nothing. Just press "Send". Everybody will use this. This will change society.
20 Years later, E-Mails are just spam. Because of economics. Pressing "Send" doesn't cost anything, and nobody reads this stuff.
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E-mail did change quite a lot, and no, e-mails are not "just spam". And people do in fact read e-mails.
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If something is important, you send it via snail mail. If your thoughts are worth it, you'll spend some Cents for a stamp.
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Perhaps you do, but you don't speak for everyone. It used to be that if you had important information, you sent it via telegram. It cost more than a letter, sure, but people weren't sending telegrams because paying more somehow made it more important. They used telegrams because it was fast: just like e-mail.