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The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

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[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yup, and people younger than a certain age think email is as archaic as the pony express.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hilariously, fax machines are as archaic as the pony express. They were invented around 1850.

Abraham Lincoln could have literally sent a japanese samurai a fax.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And we still don't have any worthy successor. In contrast to the pony express.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

In my country, people above a certain age think sending an email is impressive