Believe it or not email has been around for 40 years as the first electronic message was sent in 1971.
ARPANET (the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet) made a large contribution to the development of email however Ray Tomlinson is generally credited as having sent the first email across a network, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine in 1971, when he sent a message from one Digital Equipment Corporation DEC-10 computer to another DEC-10. The two machines were placed next to each other.
Since then, there have been countless innovations, upgrades, and technological advancements in email. Here is a detailed infographic from ReachMail with all major milestones.
That is pretty interesting, and nice infographic, but until now, I am still a fan of the snail even I am too much in this techy world :)
ReplyDeleteNice post... now what's on the cards for the FUTURE of email? Google's Wave promised it but was too complex for us mere mortals. FaceBook is trying, and the iPhone promises an advanced chat/email convergence platform for the Mac elite. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteAgree with you Mac, email is still my fav way of getting in touch especially for work.
ReplyDeleteSS, very easy question...:). Actually i do not have an answer but the global trend says that email usage is going down as more people are on social media and mobile devices. Surely something will come up sooner or later but email will be with us for long time i guess.
nothing is faster that electronic eh :)
ReplyDeletevery nice
ReplyDeleteThank you vidhya!
ReplyDeletebut before e-mail there was unix to unix copy, nice article btw
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