A New York computer whiz has created a program that can visualize the way emails bounce from server to server, in some cases across thousands of miles, at lightning speed to get from the sender to its recipient.
“The distance of e-mails is taken for granted and I want people to be able to relate to them,” Email Miles designer Jonah Brucker-Cohen told The Post.
The plug-in detects the servers by their geolocation and also calculates the distance traveled, as well as the cities, countries and continents where the message pit-stops before reaching its destination.
An e-mail sent from New York to Dakar, traveled to Chicago and California before making its way to its final destination.
Brucker-Cohen, 39, said the idea came from a desire to make digital objects more tangible and “down to earth.” He started a FundAnything campaign to raise money so that he can make the plug-in available to the public.