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The history of the email can be traced back to MIT and the early days of computing. The 1960s, computer engineers had to sign up for worktime and shared the machine with other people. Noel Moris and Tom Van Vleck had been working at MIT at the time; they had noticed a memo about the idea of the mail command. So far no one has done or signed up for the job yet. They ended up developing a way to leave messages between people sharing the same computer.
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Many people give the credit of making the email to Ray Tomlinson. He made the idea when he was working at ARPANET, which was the government – funded research project that in time became the internet. At the time you were only able to leave messages to people who shared the same computer. Tomlinson made a program that gave people the ability to send messages to and from computers connected to the ARPANET system. Tomlinson passed away in 2016.
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It wasn’t long before someone to find out how to make money off of the email. Gary Thuerk had earned the title of “father of spam” after he sent a marketing message to multiple ARPANET users in 1978. The same year that Gary Thuerk started sending spam a teenager who had an entrepreneurial drive was redefining the workplace communications. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai said a program that he created when he was a 14-year-old is the true first version of email.
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The SMTP had standardized the way people on mail servers sent and received messages.
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At the end of the ‘80s Microsoft had released its very first commercially available email product, which people called MSMail.
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Elwood Edwards’ voice had likely helped a lot of people get hooked on checking their email.
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The very first email had been sent from space.
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The Early adopters of smartphones loved their BlackBerrys. The devices surged in popularity thankfully in part to BlackBerry’s focus on mobile email.