Email, Gotta Love It

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We're here to deep dive into the technical underpinnings of everyone's FAVORITE internet technology: email. ;-P
Amaze your nerd friends with all the exciting trivia you will learn in this action-packed episode!
Hosted by Jared White & Ayush
Links:

• From Ayush:
  • Scattergun
  • The Rails and Hotwire Codex
• Scary weather 😟 Rhodes wildfires - Andy Bell
• History of email - Wikipedia
• CompuServe - Wikipedia
• The Unknown Story of How Hotmail Grew to 12 Million Users in 1.5 Years
• Do all email clients use "In-Reply-To" field in email header?
• What are DMARC, DKIM, and SPF?
• Want to keep the discussion going?
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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Weather Report (00:00:40)

3. Everyone's FAVORITE internet technology: email! (00:02:36)

4. It all began in the year 1971… (00:04:27)

5. What the hell is FTP (00:05:32)

6. Enter SMTP, POP, & IMAP (00:06:58)

7. Pre-internet "email" like Compuserve (00:08:12)

8. And Prodigy… (00:08:54)

9. POP vs. IMAP (00:09:41)

10. HoTMaiL usured in "web-based email" (00:13:46)

11. Horrible ISP webmail interfaces (00:14:15)

12. What even is an email?! (00:15:15)

13. HTML email, hoo boy… (00:17:04)

14. Email attachments (00:19:24)

15. MX records & service destinations (00:22:32)

16. Threading email replies (00:26:04)

17. Unique conversation addresses (00:28:23)

18. Email as the lingua franca of internet bulletins (00:29:30)

19. Who is this?! A word on email security (00:33:25)

20. Spam "replies" (00:37:48)

21. Industrial-strength filtering (00:39:35)

22. The dangers of commercial email monopoly (00:42:01)

23. Wrapping up (00:46:56)

24. Outro (00:49:42)