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by dave_sid 1993 days ago
In the old days people used to write letters and send them in the post. Imagine that. Anyone could hack into a letter, and they were rarely even ever encrypted. Scary.
2 comments

Yeah but no one kept tabs on who all you were sending letters to and who all were sending letters to you, and what you were writing in those letters and so on so that they could show ads to you...
Don't think I woulda thought about it this way, pretty interesting perspective
You’d think.
But then again things were better back then. Actually I’d like to go back there now.