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Re:Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died by brianclements on Sunday March 06, 2016 @03:01PM (#11235286)
"I wonder how much the economy would break down, and have to change, if email suddenly went away?"

Or suddenly went proprietary.

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Re:Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died by jacquesm on Sunday March 06, 2016 @03:14PM (#11235346)
> Or suddenly went proprietary.

It might even happen.

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Re:Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died by w1ntermute on Sunday March 06, 2016 @10:44PM (#11236976)
It almost did happen. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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Re:Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of Email, Has Died by chei0aiV on Monday March 07, 2016 @12:39AM (#11237322)
It pretty much did happen:

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be... https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/sep/15/email/

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