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Episode 49
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Audio file
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July 28th, 2017
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1 hr 5 mins
What is email?
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- The history of email (Net History)
- Email (Wikipedia)
- The man who invented email (Time)
- How does email work? (How-To Geek)
- How email works (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- How does an email server work? (MUO)
- Handshake (Computer Hope)
- File Transfer Protocol, or FTP (Wikipedia)
- What is the internet? (Computer Hope)
- A timeline of the history of the internet (Computer Hope)
- What is a hyperlink? (Wikipedia)
- Tim Burners-Lee & the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP (Wikipedia)
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP (Wikipedia)
- What is an email client? (Lifewire)
- This is how a raw email with an attachment is formatted behind the scenes - your email program makes it look like an email
- A history of the @ symbol (atsymbol)
- Meet the man who put the @ in your email (Wired)
- What is an IP address & why do all computers need one? (Lifewire)
- Who is the Mailer-Daemon? (Mental Floss)
- What is Post Office Protocol, or POP? (Lifewire)
- Attachment size limits for Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook & WhatsApp (The Windows Club)
- What is data deduplication? (Tech Target)
- The problem with email: A position paper from 2001 noting how it's insecure & delivery is not guaranteed (REBOL)
- Check digits (University of Alberta)
- Why you can’t undo sending an email (& when you can) (How-To Geek)
- Gmail has a feature where you can unsend an email (Google)
- Is your boss reading your email? (Slate)
- Australian employers free to spy on workers’ email, online chats, & smartphones without warning (news.com.au)
- Here's why your email is insecure & likely to stay that way (Digital Trends)
- Email encryption (Wikipedia)
- How to email, text or snail mail credit card information safely (Nerd Wallet)
- Mail for Mac: Sign or encrypt messages for increased security (Apple)
- Yes, the FBI & CIA can read your email. Here's how (ZD Net)
- The Government’s phone, text, & email spying, explained (abc News)
- The triumph of email: Why does one of the world's most reviled technologies keep winning? (The Atlantic)
- Why email will be obsolete by 2020 (Inc.com)
- Is there a replacement for email? (The Guardian)
- 'Don't damage encryption' rights coalition tells global governments (Wired)
- UK government can force encryption removal, but fears losing, experts say (The Guardian)
- What's the carbon footprint of an email? (Phys.org)
- Spare us the email yada-yada: Why footers are legally worthless (The Economist)
- What happens to your email when you die? (news.com.au)
- Johnny uses a paid email service called Fast Mail (FastMail)
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