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ACK IN THE DAY, the mail was sent by tubes, the original internet: The Mailpipe:

Charles Emory Smith, the former postmaster general, predicted in The Brooklyn Eagle in 1900 that one day every household would be linked to every other by means of pneumatic tubes. Around the turn of the century, there were even several proposals to build a system between North America and Europe

There’s a cool picture there, as well.