Yes, agree and remember. I lived in very many different places in the late '90s. Often, the only method of communication was email. No landlines sometimes and certainly no cell phones.
I can't remember the last time I got a personal email. I get some rather lovely ones from my colleagues, but a personal email is a letter, and nearly as extinct.
@Elias @academicchatter
In the skewed world of academic publishing, we don't even own the copyright to our own articles. So, if the academic publishers cared enough, they would go down that road of protecting the work. Instead, they have signed up with AI companies to let them train their LLMs on academic work for free and with no opt-out for individual researchers/authors.