2006-07-26 00:50:59 · 22 answers · asked by Roly P 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Although it has existed in some form since 1965 email as we understand it came in with the creation of ARPANET in 1969. The first recognisable email including the @ in address was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.
2006-07-26 00:56:28 · answer #1 · answered by mickyrisk 4 · 18⤊ 3⤋
in 23 july 2006
2006-07-26 07:53:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to communicate. Although the exact history is murky, among the first systems to have such a facility were SDC's Q32 and MIT's CTSS.
E-mail was quickly extended to become network e-mail, allowing users to pass messages between different computers. The messages could be transferred between users on different computers by 1966, but it is possible the SAGE system had something similar some time before.
The ARPANET computer network made a large contribution to the evolution of e-mail. There is one report which indicates experimental inter-system e-mail transfers on it shortly after its creation, in 1969. Ray Tomlinson initiated the use of the @ sign to separate the names of the user and their machine in 1971. The ARPANET significantly increased the popularity of e-mail, and it became the killer app of the ARPANET.
In 1969 US Air Force users were sending text messages by keypunching cards with long text messages using one card for each 80 character line and transmitting them as card decks from one computer to another. By 1979, US Air Force users were logging onto central computers k within hours. By the end of 1983 US Air Force users were using user names like alclark@vax1.mil to send e-mail between a nationwide linkup of VAX computers. By 1984 these same users were using personal computers for same.
In 1979, the US Post Office bought a computer specifically for email, but wound up selling it to private industry.
In 1982 the White House adopted a prototype e-mail system from IBM called the Professional Office System, or PROFs for the National Security Council (NSC) staff. By April 1985, the system was fully operational within the NSC with home terminals for principals on the staff. By November of 1986 the rest of the White House came online, first with the PROFs system, and later (by the end of the 1980s) through a variety of systems including VAX A-1 ("All in One"), and ccmail.
2006-07-26 07:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by Max P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I first sent an email to my friend jamie in 1999, when my school gave everyone an email address.
it was along the lines of "Yo mama so dirty she takes her own crabs to the beach" and he replied with an insult, and i went back. this went on for 4 years, it was ACE. we printed on the last day and it was 100+ pages. it really pissed off the Head of IT, but it was our last day, what could he do???
2006-07-26 08:00:48 · answer #4 · answered by the_falcon_1987 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would presume by the USA army. Because the interent was first created by the army to improve communication, so i suppose they also sent the first email.
2006-07-26 07:53:31 · answer #5 · answered by Hanif 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1965...the 'electronic mail' was sent from computers sharing a mainframe computer, apparently at MIT.
Tim Berners Lee's team (the bloke who invented html) were the first to use web based email in 1971
2006-07-26 07:57:29 · answer #6 · answered by mrogynist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971
2006-07-26 07:57:45 · answer #7 · answered by Arsalan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AL Gore sent an E-MAIL to his Mother. Just after he invented the INTERNET. It read: What has GOD... scratch that... FATE Rought"
That was when he as 2 months old. You can do the math from there.
2006-07-26 07:54:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 Feb 1968 by FBI to President of USA
2006-07-26 07:54:15 · answer #9 · answered by kutch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1962 in the us army ... Mr. Erol sent the first email.
2006-07-26 07:52:55 · answer #10 · answered by Warrior 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋