What you may be missing from the history of email is that when it started, it was never about universal communication. It was internal communication within your own organization or between connected orgs. Frankly, it was a bit of a revolution when it started to be able to route outside your own network. And it wasn't always across the internet - while certainly IP-based email existed on the early networks, there were also modem-based email networks which were used by local communities and even for cross-organization email systems.
So unless you consider the entire population of a country to be a single organization, it makes little sense for them to have looked into running an email service.
In the US, this could be a municipal service (my.name@themunicipality.emailservice.mystate.gov), and then we treat everyone in a geography as an organization. This feels a bit more likely to represent an "organization", especially for smaller municipalities. I would expect service availability and quality to vary widely between different municipalities - similarly to how parks, bike lanes, and other infrastructure quality vary widely between municipalities.
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What you may be missing from the history of email is that when it started, it was never about universal communication. It was internal communication within your own organization or between connected orgs. Frankly, it was a bit of a revolution when it started to be able to route outside your own network. And it wasn't always across the internet - while certainly IP-based email existed on the early networks, there were also modem-based email networks which were used by local communities and even for cross-organization email systems.
So unless you consider the entire population of a country to be a single organization, it makes little sense for them to have looked into running an email service.
You're right, I didn't know that. Thanks!
In the US, this could be a municipal service (my.name@themunicipality.emailservice.mystate.gov), and then we treat everyone in a geography as an organization. This feels a bit more likely to represent an "organization", especially for smaller municipalities. I would expect service availability and quality to vary widely between different municipalities - similarly to how parks, bike lanes, and other infrastructure quality vary widely between municipalities.