🆕 blog! “Vanguard - The Government Project to get British Businesses to use the Internet”
Email isn't an obvious business benefit. Imagine it is the early 1980s and you need to communicate with people across the country. A first-class letter will cost you 17p - about 60p in today's money. The letter will be…
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@Edent Thanks, an interesting bit of history.
Shame that we still struggle with a lot of what was envisioned. While we share so much digitally a lot of it is still useless to the machines and processes at each end. PDF docs that get rekeyed for example. Sadly seeing many people looking to AI to deal with all the data they get digitally.
That said, with things like e-invoicing regulations being brought into force in a number of countries maybe governments are stepping in to shift things forward
@Edent Oh happy days😉
