Perhaps that is the point. Email isn't a brand-new way to socialize__ nor is it juiced up with memes and not takes. But we are still opening G-mail or Hot-mail every day because it works and everybody has it. Under the hood, email uses protocol(数据传递的协议)that keeps trying to send data, over and over, hoping that it can outlast network problems. It doesn't give up. And somehow, by trying really earnestly, it has outlived__ the computers where it has born and the spammers who tried to defeat it.