2025-11-28:
Someone ruined the internet (x)
We all know that email@example.com is an email address. But what does an email address mean?
It means that on a server with the address example.com there is an account named email.
We also know it’s an email address, so we know which port to poke and what protocol to choose (details in dns).
And every *nix account can be written as user1@computer1, which means that on computer1 there exists an account user1.
The symbol @ literally means at:
user-at-computer1email-at-example.com
Cose. Uniform.
And then Twitter comes along and decides that everyone will be @user2, and breaks the internet.
TWITTER SHOULD HAVE USED user2@!!!111
We lost everything. Dark times are ahead.