History of Email, Electronic mail

If we try to look at the history of email, we need to go back to the era before ARPANET, the grandpa of Internet, came into existence. Let's turn back the clock, and take a brief look at the development of email communication.

Mississauga, Canada (prHWY.com) October 9, 2012 - If we try to look at the history of email, we need to go back to the era before ARPANET, the grandpa of Internet, came into existence. Let's turn back the clock, and take a brief look at the development of email communication. Electronic mail, known commonly by its abbreviation 'email', is probably the most used medium of communication today. 50 years ago, had someone said that it would be possible to instantly deliver documents to a recipient sitting half way across the globe, he would have been a laughingstock. But, email came, saw and conquered the world wide web. Today, with email, there's so much more than just written text communication. Ability of the email to securely forward multimedia, photos, software, etc. has made it very popular. It's rightly said that 'necessity is the mother of all inventions', and we humans have always found a way whenever the need arose. The history of email communication is very interesting and intriguing. Let's go back to the days when the Cold War was at its peak.


Following the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the Pentagon initiated a program to design a network whose main aim was to withstand a nuclear attack. Though, Pentagon insisted that this was not a military program and gave it a scientific angle. This network came to be known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network or ARPANET, after the program's completion by 1969. Evolution of email is said to have started much earlier than ARPANET, though.


In 1965, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was the first to demonstrate the use of the first email system, known as MAILBOX. This was before internetwork came into existence and therefore, this system was used to send messages to different users on the same computer.


In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, a former MITian, was working on TENEX operating system for BBN technologies as an ARPANET contractor. While using a local email program called SNDMSG, Tomlinson created the first email application when he patched a program called CPYNET to the existing SNDMSG. This introduced the capability to copy files through a network and Ray notified his colleagues by sending them the first email. It's said that the first message sent by Ray was 'QWERTYUIOP', which is formed by the entire first row characters of a standard keyboard.


The history of email addresses can also be attributed to Tomlinson. He chose the '@' symbol to provide an addressing standard in the form of "user@host", which is in use till date. This is why Tomlinson is called the 'father of email' and is credited with its invention.


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