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Could electronic mail undermine conventional post? – archive, 1 December 1983
(www.theguardian.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Maybe 1883 had some ideas?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/before-folding-30-years-ago-the-sears-catalog-sold-some-surprising-products-180981504/