Why did SMTP win? My first business card had my ARPA email address on it, which occasionally generated a question but which was usually ignored by those who didn’t have email. Then people started to list their compuserve or whatever address on their cards — often several addresses — which made me laugh, and then eventually an SMTP address wiped all those alternatives out.
I used to see the same thing with phone numbers: a stack of phone (desk phone), fax, pager, voice mail, mobile, all eventually collapsing into a single phone number.
Why did this not happen with messaging (which is more than 30 years old, despite what the article says)?
I used to see the same thing with phone numbers: a stack of phone (desk phone), fax, pager, voice mail, mobile, all eventually collapsing into a single phone number.
Why did this not happen with messaging (which is more than 30 years old, despite what the article says)?