▲ 2 ▼ Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers (www.theguardian.com) submitted 3 years ago by ono@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 0 points 3 years ago (2 children) Didn't even know this was a service to begin with. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] max@feddit.nl 1 point 3 years ago It used to be quite a big deal, back in the day. The other day I read a really old thread on some local forum here in NL, and it said that you couldn't sign up with an "anonymous" email address, such as hotmail or gmail. Only provider-issued email addresses were accepted there so "they had an idea who they were dealing with". Times really did change a lot. permalink fedilink source parent [–] briongloid@aussie.zone 1 point 3 years ago It was the main introduction to email for a lot of Australians, they've been using it as is for 15-20 years. It's more than just one generation that uses it, I know people in their thirties who use theirs via the Gmail app as with any long-term email their is no need to change address. I remember only signing up to Gmail because it felt new and techy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] max@feddit.nl 1 point 3 years ago It used to be quite a big deal, back in the day. The other day I read a really old thread on some local forum here in NL, and it said that you couldn't sign up with an "anonymous" email address, such as hotmail or gmail. Only provider-issued email addresses were accepted there so "they had an idea who they were dealing with". Times really did change a lot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 1 point 3 years ago It was the main introduction to email for a lot of Australians, they've been using it as is for 15-20 years. It's more than just one generation that uses it, I know people in their thirties who use theirs via the Gmail app as with any long-term email their is no need to change address. I remember only signing up to Gmail because it felt new and techy. permalink fedilink source parent