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That's nice, grandpa. I'm probably physically older than you, but I mostly commonly see your attitude when I'm sipping beer with old vets down at the Elks lodge.

Just because we invented and pioneered the early 'net doesn't mean we own it. Things change and usage patterns evolve as people join and leave the medium. Email today is a medium for HTML and emojis for almost everyone using it, except for the curmudgeons. We don't get to define "communicates properly".

Don't be a curmudgeon. This isn't "our" system anymore, if it ever was at all.




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