Email was already being used in the early 1970s, roughly two decades before the World Wide Web made the internet feel public.

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The web made clicking through pages feel normal in the 1990s, but networked messages came earlier — email grew out of research and office systems into one of the world's default channels of work. Digital revolutions tend to arrive in layers, not all at once.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

E-posta 1970’lerin başında kullanılıyordu; World Wide Web’in interneti kamusal hissettirmesinden yaklaşık yirmi yıl önce.

Web, 1990'larda sayfalar arasında gezinmeyi olağanlaştırdı; ama ağ üzerinden mesajlaşma daha önce gelmişti — e-posta, araştırma ve ofis sistemlerinden dünyanın en yaygın iş kanallarından birine büyüdü. Dijital devrimler tek seferde değil, katman katman gelir.

Source trail

Read beyond the card.

Ray Tomlinson, 1971.

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