The Evolution Of Email

Regardless of the general wisdom around the net these days, email is still a major way for us to communicate, especially for business. It's true that texting is more popular with the "natural" generation (those teens and younger who've never known anything else), and direct messaging from Facebook and Twitter is a growing trend, but if you're serious about getting a message of any kind across, your world still revolves around email.

Still we've come to think of email as a stunted technology that hasn't changed much since it was invented in the 60's. That's far from true, as you'll see in the following chart. Email is a living and breathing piece of tech that continues to grow until this day.

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