BIRTHDAY
of
E-MAIL 10.10.1971
On this day in 1971, Ray Tomlinson had sent the
first EMAIL on network.
Here is the little history of EMAIL :
Here is the little history of EMAIL :
In 1971, the ARPANET ("Advanced Research Projects Agency
Network") had just begun to emerge as the first larger network of
computers. It was sponsored and created by the U.S. Department of Defense and
would later lead to the development of the internet. But in 1971, the ARPANET
was little more than connected computers, and those who knew about it searched
for possible uses of this invention.
Richard W. Watson, for example, thought of a way to deliver
messages and files to printers at remote sites. He filed his "Mail
Box Protocol" as a draft standard under RFC 196,
but the protocol was never implemented. In hindsight and given today's problems
with junk email (and junk faxes before that), that's probably not all that bad.
Another person interested in sending messages between computers
was Ray Tomlinson. SNDMSG, a program that can deliver messages to another person on
the same computer had been around for about ten years already. It delivered these messages by appending to a
file owned by the user you wanted to reach. To read the message, they would simply read the file.
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