Is email "modern" technology?
tokenadult: I still think Michael Kinsley had it best, explaining email in a television interview back when only a minority of Americans had email (when I already did have email):"Email has most of the advantages of the telephone, and most of the advantages of postal mail, and few of the disadvantages of either." Email is wonderful. Here I am on a Web-based discussion forum (HN is not email), but I still use email for a LOT of communication, and I wish I could use it for more.I think it's pretty obvious and probably also empirically provable that email can be considered relatively primitive compared to newer forms of communication.Please show your work and give the empirical proof. I'd be glad to learn something from you.