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Emails

By Aleeah/oltmanns02
  • The Invention of Email

    The Invention of Email

    Ray Tomlinson the title of email’s inventor. He come up with the idea while working for ARPANET. The government funded the research project.
  • The Queen’s First Email

    The Queen’s First Email

    Queen Elizabeth II was the first head-of-state to use email.

  • The First Spam Email

    Gary Thurek earned the title “father of spam” after sending an unsolicited email marketing message to hundreds of ARPANET users.
  • Making Email Simpler

    Making Email Simpler

    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) standardized the way mail servers send and receive messages.

  • Outlook’s Ancestor

    Towards the end of the decade, Microsoft released its first commercially available email product, MSMail.

  • The Voice of Email

    In the ‘90sElwood Edwards’ voice likely helped the masses get hooked on checking email.

  • The Birth of Webmail

    The history of email moved so quickly, it’s easy to forget that, for quite some time, you had to send and receive email on a specific software program.
  • Email Goes Wireless

    Email Goes Wireless

    Early adopters of smartphones loved their BlackBerrys. The devices surged in popularity thanks in part to BlackBerry’s focus on mobile email. Released in 2002, the BlackBerry was the first device