Email, Gotta Love It

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?
  • Join the The Spicy Web Discord Server

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:40 Weather Report
• 2:36 Everyone's FAVORITE internet technology: email!
• 4:27 It all began in the year 1971…
• 5:32 What the hell is FTP
• 6:58 Enter SMTP, POP, & IMAP
• 8:12 Pre-internet "email" like Compuserve
• 8:54 And Prodigy…
• 9:41 POP vs. IMAP
• 13:46 HoTMaiL usured in "web-based email"
• 14:15 Horrible ISP webmail interfaces
• 15:15 What even is an email?!
• 17:04 HTML email, hoo boy…
• 19:24 Email attachments
• 22:32 MX records & service destinations
• 26:04 Threading email replies
• 28:23 Unique conversation addresses
• 29:30 Email as the lingua franca of internet bulletins
• 33:25 Who is this?! A word on email security
• 37:48 Spam "replies"
• 39:35 Industrial-strength filtering
• 42:01 The dangers of commercial email monopoly
• 46:56 Wrapping up
• 49:42 Outro