{"id":792,"date":"2007-04-02T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/a-brief-history-of-email\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T14:34:21","slug":"a-brief-history-of-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/a-brief-history-of-email\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History Of Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/no-email-fridays\/\" target=\"_blank\">no email Fridays<\/a> here before and now this morning I&nbsp;kick up <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.careerjournal.com\/~r\/wsj\/career_journal\/~3\/105982805\/20070402-totty.html\" target=\"_blank\">this CareerJournal.com article<\/a> regarding the use of other communication channels.&nbsp; Instant messaging is popular here at Select Metrix and does work well as a companion tool to email.&nbsp; In case you didn&#8217;t know the history of email:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Electronic mail was invented in 1971, but wasn&#8217;t widely adopted by businesses until the late 1980s, with the arrival of Lotus Notes and other programs. Since then, its use in the corporate world has exploded: Research firm Radicati Group Inc. estimates <em>the average corporate email user sent and received about 171 messages a day<\/em> last year, a number expected to double by 2010.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>1971 is surprising to me &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know email was that old.&nbsp; I&#8217;m old enough to remember VAX accounts being <em>the thing<\/em> in college.&nbsp; 171 messages a day also surprises me that it is that high.&nbsp; Maybe this no email Friday has some legs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve discussed no email Fridays here before and now this morning I&nbsp;kick up this CareerJournal.com article regarding the use of other communication channels.&nbsp; Instant messaging is popular here at Select Metrix and does work well as a companion tool to email.&nbsp; In case you didn&#8217;t know the history of email: Electronic mail was invented in 1971, but wasn&#8217;t widely adopted by businesses until the late 1980s, with the arrival of Lotus Notes and other programs. Since then, its use in the corporate world has exploded: Research firm Radicati Group Inc. estimates the average corporate email user sent and received about 171 messages a day last year, a number expected to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/a-brief-history-of-email\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-cM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->