[ornornor]

The “problem” is that you can’t embed trackers, images for tracking, and other marketing crap.

[lucumo]

Yes. Famously, this is why stuff on paper ever only uses a single font with empty line paragraph separators, and nothing else.

[imgabe]

Prior to computers most business correspondence would be typewritten in essentially the same font with little or no graphics, maybe a logo on the letterhead if you’re really fancy. That seemed to work fine.

[zamnos]

Ah yes. Prior to computers there was no such thing as art, and then before the invention of color, everything was black and white.

[imgabe]

The topic was email. Email does not need to be art.

[lucumo]

https://images.indianahistory.org/digital/collection/m0399/i...

Even in this letter from 1950, there is:

- bold type - underlining - different text alignments - a table

It's done shittily, but it's done. It also took forever, which is why they had to fill large rooms with typists.

[imgabe]

You can do all that with plain text, except for the bold.

[harryvederci]

I thought paper was deprecated?

[zx8080]

Also pens and pencils. Who cares about that since we have chatgpt now!