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The Background
There’s one technology we all use that’s not really evolved since the 1960s: electronic mail or… email. Email was born before the Internet, making it nearly 60 years old. Originally, the technology was intended for a small number of users to communicate with each other on a shared Unix mainframe (a giant computer with 50-100 user accounts)…