Rant against centralising e-mail in big-tech silos, and breaking the internet in the process Universities and research institutes used to be at the forefront when it comes to development of the fundamental technologies that power the internet. As early as 1965, researchers at MIT developed a kind of precursor to e-mail. In 1978, researchers at Berkeley leveraged the already existing unix tool 'mail' (1971) to communicate over a larger network. Universities and research institutes were among t...
