Email

Email is infuriating until you realise it's just paper that can teleport, and each reply is also just paper, and it has all the same strengths and weaknesses of letters written on paper. Which makes it immediately clear why email is so bad at being a group chat. Where Email Works For 1:1 conversations, email is pretty good. Similar to how me and my friend April sending letters to each other is pretty good. Lets assume April and I keep copies of the letters we send each other for future reference, and now all of the following holds up: all participants know the full and consistent conversation history we can read the conversation in chronological order and everything makes sense I can send attachments like photos and we both have copies of them we could start multiple conversations in parallel based on subject and it could work decently it has the potential to be confusing but we could make it work if we were strict about discussing specific topics in specific threads even if I wanted…