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ENIAC
The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) was finally finished and introduced by John Mauchly after three years of work. -
The Keyboard
Researchers began the develpopment and input of the keyboard into the comuter systems at MIT. Doug Ross used the Flexowriter to test due to low price and flexibility. -
Timesharing computers
These were introduced to write programs to exchange text messages and even live chat among users at different terminals. As is often the case, more than one person at the same time noticed that it was a natural use of a new technology to extend human communications. However, these early systems were limited to use by the group of people using one computer. -
Ray Tomlinson
Tomlinson was the first to find a way to send messages via computer using the "@" symbol. -
The Queen was the first
Queen Elizabeth II of England was the first of the head of state to send an email. -
Get hip to email
During the mid 1980s, email has become more and more common. It became a big help in academics, government workers, and military personnel. Colleges began give emails to there students. -
10 mil
There were over 10 million email accounts world wide from this date on. -
Email is getting old
30th anniversary of email. -
Hotmail for sale
Microsoft bought Hotmail for $400 million
