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Ray Tomlinson, a computer scientist in Massachusetts, wrote a computer program that let people to send e-mails.
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MAIL& MLFL were added to FTP program to provide standard network transport capabilites for email transmission.
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The @ symbol is invented by Ray Tomlinson.
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The DARPA program manager Steve Walker intiated a project at RAND to develop an MSG email capability for the UNIX operating system.
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SFU was among the first universities to offer email as a general service to faculty, staff, & students using the message command on the MTS mainframe system.
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The American Library Association will inaugurate Alanet, a new electronic & information service.
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Steve Dorner invents an Education application that gave a popular face to email by providing a graphical user interface for email management.
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The first release of Lotus Notes email software. 35,000 copies are sold in the first year.
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Microsoft releases Internet Mail &News 1.0, a feature of its third release of Internet Explorer. Later renamed outlook.
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About 10 million users world wide have free web mail accounts.
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Microsoft buys over Hotmail $400m.
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Email celebrates its 30th anniversary with virtually every business in the developed world signed on.
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Congress had considred spam legislation for more than five years.
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Federal Trade Comminsion published regulations which define the relevant criteria to determine wheter the primary purpose of an electronic mail message is "commerical" & thus soon message is subject to the provisions of the CAN SPAM act.
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Email has made communication easy in the business world, it has also helped long distant family members in contact. Also email is cheaper than phone.
