Last night in The Internet Course, the panel did an excellent job sparking discussion about the social, economic, and cultural impacts of the internet. And almost forty years later its pretty interesting that e-mail is still “the killer app.” So, as we’re talking about the impact of the internet on our culture over the last forty years, I couldn’t help but think of this 1977 image from Retronaut Tim Owens shared with me a few weeks back. Email was application that helped people grok how the internet would dramatically shift the foundation of communication technologies. In fact, in the late 1960 Donald Davies conceptualized an early vision of the internet as way of updating the British mail system.
I think a much young Angelina Jolie said it best:

