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The thing you swear you'll send later, then forget until the apology email.
means A file sent along with an email, or more broadly anything fastened or joined to something else — including the emotional bond that ties one person to another.
from From the Old French 'attachier,' to fasten or fix, which gave English 'attach' in the medieval period. The root may trace to a Frankish word for a stake or peg — the idea of pinning something in place. The emotional sense (a fondness that 'binds' you) arrived later, and the email sense is purely modern, where we fasten a file to a message the way you'd pin a note to a board.
- email origin
- First email attachment sent in 1992 was a photo
- psychology
- Attachment styles formed in infancy shape adult love
- size limit
- Gmail caps attachments at 25 megabytes
- buddhism
- Attachment is named the root of human suffering
- missing file
- Billions of emails say attached with nothing attached
paperclip — invented by johan vaaler in norway in 1899, now the most common way to bind papers together
velcro — created by george de mestral in 1941, hook-and-loop fastener used on shoes, straps, and clothing
zip tie — patented by thomas j. mclean in 1958, plastic fasteners widely used in cable management and bundling