{"id":698,"date":"2011-09-04T22:17:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T04:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2011-09-04T22:17:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T04:17:39","slug":"happy-birthday-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday email!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/email.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-699\" title=\"email\" src=\"http:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/email.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a>You may be surprised to learn that it has been 29 years (and a few days) since email was copyrighted by then 16-year-old V. A. Shiva. While the growth of SMS (text messaging) and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have taken some of the traffic that might otherwise have gone to email, Shiva is confident that email will continue to be a significant form of electronic communication for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Current estimates are that approximately 300 billion email messages are sent daily, and about 90% of those are spam. Fortunately for us spam filters delete most of the unwanted email messages before we have to deal with them.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the history of email and current statistics about users, see the article and info-graphic <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/shareables\/2011\/08\/30\/today-is-the-30th-anniversary-of-email-as-copyrighted-by-this-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be surprised to learn that it has been 29 years (and a few days) since email was copyrighted by then 16-year-old V. A. Shiva. While the growth of SMS (text messaging) and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have taken some of the traffic that might otherwise have gone to email, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-email\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy birthday email!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive-media","category-new-media","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}