PS- The “real” (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.

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    1 year ago

    ISPs included email because almost everyone was a modem user (and hence only connected sporadically) and email servers need constant uptime or they lose messages.

    They also ran news servers and hosted user web pages for basically the same reason.

    Only freaks and weirdos (like me) ran servers from home.