• scubbo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    When it was invented, it was complex and annoying, even by today’s standards.

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      1 year ago

      Still is if you’re not using a product like gmail or outlook that auto enters all of the incoming and outgoing servers.

      How many of us have spent time on our ISP’s help page trying to find the damn STMP server domain?

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      1 year ago

      For a small period of time I was a god that would bless people with gmail invites lol. That brings me back. I remember compuserve and Hotmail but I don’t remember them being especially complicated at all. Maybe that was before my time…? Which would be nice for once

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        Hotmail was already the easy-mode stuff.

        Before that you’d get your email account provided by the ISP, and before that you’d have to find someone who ran an email server and ask nicely for them to make you an account.

        And regarding ease of use: The reason why e.g. SMTP is human-readable is because in the early days SMTP wasn’t the protocol that your email client used to talk to the server. It was the email client.

        You’d just telnet to your server and type in the SMTP commands manually.