Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
- Lotus Notes, in 1989, had encryption two years before Pretty Good Privacy brought it to normal email, had rich text formatting and attachments before MIME, had read receipts, notifications, a directory of users, and wiki-style cross-message links.
- Or like déjà vu, if you’d used email on a timesharing computer at your university.
- Lotus Notes was the future of communications, a decade before laptops had WiFi.
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- Lotus Notes, in 1989, had encryption two years before Pretty Good Privacy brought it to normal email, had rich text formatting and attachments before MIME, had read receipts, notifications, a directory of users, and wiki-style cross-message links.
- Or like déjà vu, if you’d used email on a timesharing computer at your university.
- Lotus Notes was the future of communications, a decade before laptops had WiFi.
Sources: Buttondown