Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 01:14:49PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> I know a large number of people under the age of 20 who literally say
> things like, "email is only for password reminders and my Steam login
> code". It's not that they are non-technical or uninterested in
> technology, it's that specifically email is an unknown and unwieldy tool
> for them. When email is the only support venue, to a lot of folks that
> is unwelcoming.
The likes of facebook are steering people away from email as they want to keep
all interaction within their eco system - email is something that lets people
escape from them.
> I say this as someone who has had an email address since 1992 and has
> been using this particular email address since 1998.
Oh, a new email user then :-) My 2 dates corresponding to yours are: 1975 (local
site only or global around 1982 when I met Unix) and 1986 (although it did
change form once we got away from uucp).
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