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Email was invented for productivity and turned into anxiety.
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Email was invented for productivity and turned into anxiety.
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Email predates the internet. Ray Tomlinson sent the first networked email on ARPANET in 1971 and chose the @ sign. It was meant for communication, and the anxiety is a joke.
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