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> There's nothing "complacent" about this: previous generations also relied on infrastructure and didn't plan for prolonged power outages or had backup ham radio network links for when AOL was down.

A lot of the protocols for asynchronous communication allowed for operating in offline mode. So if you didn't have an internet connection, you could still compose and send emails, but the client would only actually connect to the network when were actually connected and send the emails all at once (as well as downloading emails from the POP or IMAP server).

git actually has commands that leverage email for sending an receiving patches, so that code review and development can take place without requiring a connection at all other than to send and receive when needed.