2006-10-25 05:39:51 · 5 answers · asked by narten j 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
I thought that was Al Gore...or what that just the entire internet...I forgot...
2006-10-25 05:50:28 · answer #1 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia describes the evolution of email this way: first, people who could log into the same computer could leave files for each other and these files could be messages. The Compatible Time Sharing System at MIT in 1961 may have been the first machine where that was possible. Realizing that this was a useful way to communicate, programmers developed software dedicated to sending messages to other people on the same computer around 1965. By then there were other machines (mainframes) that could do that. The military seems to have entered at this point, around 1966, when someone wrote software to send messages between computers. Finally, ARPANET, which was the beginning of the internet (and originally a military project) was where email as we know it today (with the '@' sign) took shape, around 1971.
2006-10-25 05:54:41 · answer #2 · answered by baslow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US military.
2006-10-25 05:43:45 · answer #3 · answered by cowboy_cat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the military. they also founded the internet.
2006-10-25 05:47:24 · answer #4 · answered by Chris J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
al gore
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2006-10-25 05:41:48 · answer #5 · answered by ~daweed~ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋