Good morning internet.

Just in: computers made snail mail (letters) obsolete somewhere. And it’s in Denmark.

If we consider 1965 as the year that electronic mail started to take its actual shape and fulfill its function… Then it’s roughly a 60 years cycle between the time the technology is out, and the time it replaces its direct legacy predecessor system.

Here I speak purely in terms of core function, regardless of size or capex… And no allusion whatsoever to hubris and new born technologies that have been force fed to the public by barely-adult post-teenagers, without the slightest idea of real world innovation cycles, and an infinite appetite for endless cash, or else we are doomed to live in the stone age of the pre-smartphone era.

Mind you, email is a very well understood and robust stack that predates the modern internet to some extent, and the web by a large margin.

Hats off to the Danish postal services, for what I imagine being 4 centuries of efficiency.