@woeisme@mk.absturztau.be @solonovamax@tech.lgbt Back in the day, we had exactly the same with email. Like a text file in notepad, emails were so simple that they could not contain a virus (you could attach one, but attachments didn't do anything, you could just save then). Then Microsoft introduced Outlook and Outlook Express, and for a while, email viruses were the most common kind.