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Email made the corporate mailroom obsolete and the letter carrier.



So would it be poetic justice when an electrician gets laid off?


More like if the motor maker gets replaced by a motorised machine. And yeah, that’s poetic.

The electrician is more like the person laying fibre optic cable.


Did the inventor of the SMTP protocol get laid off?




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