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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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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

In my experience, the majority of people doesn't have the slightest clue how mail works. Somehow you type it in and provide it with an address into one of the three indistinguishable fields that are titled "To", " CC", "BCC". And by some black magic it either appears on the screen of the other person. Or it doesn't. That's about the amount of knowledge.

So comparing something to this is kind of meaningless.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

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