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Re:Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email by nine_k on Friday May 17, 2024 @02:48PM (#40393062)
A solution that is 100% interoperable with the existing widely deployed solution but also offers substantial advantages can have good chances to coexist with the old solution for years if not decades, supplanting it only slowly.

Examples of success: monochrome TV -> color TV, landline phones -> mobile phones, the Windows 3.x -> Windows 9x -> Windows NT/2k/XP transition.

Email has a really well-working transport layer. The UX layer can see some innovation while staying compatible.

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Re:Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email by sneed_chucker on Friday May 17, 2024 @02:54PM (#40393118)
Yeah, backwards compatibility that you slowly frog boil people out of is definitely the most effective solution for something like this.
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