History of the e-mail

• · The e-mail was never invented it had evolved from very simple beginnings
• · One of the first e-mail system was MAILBOX used at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1965. Another program were you could send messages was called SNDMSG
• · Ray Tomlinson was created in creating the first e-mail in 1972, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor
• · He picked the “@” symbol from a keyboard to symbolises sending a message from one computer to another
• · The first message was sent between two computers that were literally side by side, the only physical connection they had was that they were connected through ARPANET

Information taken from:

· http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html

· http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html