Email Timeline By Teagan12 1971 Ray Tomilsen sent the first networked email 1977 The modern email merges 1981 The ascb encored scheme 1985 Email is commonplace among academics 1989 The first isp starts up 1991 Astronauts sent the first email from outer space 1992 The work of the brimstone to post mail 1996 One of the first web-based email services