Ten years of email – David Strom

Google’s Gmail service just passed the 7G-byte threshold, meaning that’s how much email storage users get for free (it’s unlimited on Yahoo Mail). David Strom, once co-authored a book about e-mail, marvels at how far we’ve come in just 10 years. It wasn’t that long ago that most e-mail packages were proprietary and the industry haggled over standards, he remembers. Today, it’s accepted that all e-mail is Internet-based and this has helped embed this tool quickly into the fabric of our everydays lives. Now if only someone would do something about security.

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