“I wanted to be able to send pictures and videos and stuff like that in e-mail…And by the way, when people would ask me, ‘Why do you care so much about putting media into e-mail?’ I always said because someday I’m going to have grandchildren and I want to get pictures of them by e-mail. And people’s reaction was to laugh and laugh.”
Nathaniel Borenstein from The MIME guys: How two Internet gurus changed e-mail forever by Jon Brodkin
Borenstein is one of the co-creators of the MIME protocol, which has made it easy for us to include photos, videos and other attachments in our email for twenty years.
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