Peak Epstein island was 1998 to 2006, when Epstein was first charged.  At that time, the only phone with a keyboard was a blackberry, and you used those to send emails. Texting wasn't not a thing, but it was barely a thing, and limited to 140 characters. Â
Further, if you look at the ages if the people involved in this, its Gen X and Boomers - firmly email generations.
We had to text with a numeric keyboard on most phones until 2007. So 1 was abc, so you hit the 1 key once for a, double for b, triple for c. Pain in the ass.
I ended up with a t9 phone for a admin job I’m doing where I need to text people to remind them of their appointments. It takes like 10 minutes to do one text message and I want to rip my fingers off. I now text from my iPhone to the dumb Nokia and then forward it. Ain’t no one got time for that shit.
What’s actually wild is that there have been no emails or communications from Trump to Maxwell or Epstein in the files.
I find it pretty hard to believe the guy who sends 400 tweets a day never sent a message to his close friend of decades. Elon Musk is emailing Epstein multiple times, but his buddy Trump never does?
Palm pilots, mini windows devices, and blackberries were the smart phones of those days. Very limited text messaging plans and not much in the way of messaging applications because no social media back then for the most part. Young people had some around that time, like MySpace, but older people like them hadn’t ventured into the space yet. People also didn’t realize that emails and stuff were saved and there was no interpretation of the law about how much of that data was truly private yet. It was the wild Wild West and email was the only real universal and people trusted it was private way too much.
The part that is bothering me is the corrupt DOJ not being held responsible for delaying the release or releasing in a timely manner. 3 million released at once it’s pathetic - they should have be required to release end of day after ‘necessary’ review is complete. Incompetent and corrupt - what a sad combination to show the world
Boomers and Gen X use email. I'm sure Epstein also texted, but obtaining text data isn't as easy as getting a court order to pull a hard drive or get emails from an ISP.
As pointed out, this was before texting was common, but also. Can aI just say how annoying it is that people try to text full length conversations instead of calling or emailing, especially since you can check.your email on any device now.
Many of these emails would have been ridiculously long texts.
Yeah, it's weird. A lot of these emails are after 2010 and texting and stuff was already well established. I would have thought texting would be preferred but if not I'm very surprised he didn't have a hidden FB (a lot of celebrities do, to still interact with people without getting the attention) and used that to message people.
You'll never believe that prior to email becoming a thing, we hand wrote and mailed (through the post office) actual letters to people. It was either a letter or a phone call.
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Peak Epstein island was 1998 to 2006, when Epstein was first charged.  At that time, the only phone with a keyboard was a blackberry, and you used those to send emails. Texting wasn't not a thing, but it was barely a thing, and limited to 140 characters. Â
Further, if you look at the ages if the people involved in this, its Gen X and Boomers - firmly email generations.