subject: The History of Email [print this page] In conclusion, one of the best inventions from the 90s has to be email. But is a backlash coming? Sometimes people are too connected to their email and have a compulsion to check it several times a day. At work, people have become lazy and instead of going to speak to the person sitting next to you, they send an email, causing an inbox pile up with more time spent reading emails and responding than working. Paradoxically, an invention that saved time because of its quick and speedy connection can snow also causes us to waste a lot of time.
