Tuesday, July 1, 2014

History of E-mail ?


E-mail or Electronic mail is the necessity of today’s world.  Can you imagine a corporate life without email ?  E-mail makes life our life easy and fast.

But how many of us know the history of Email.

Email or Electronic mail change the entire system of written communication throughout the world and Today, there are billion of Billions email sent and received in the world.
Today, you can send the email in fraction of second from one part of world to another part.

Thanks to Mr. Ray Tomlinson , An Engineer of USA 1971 able to sent the first email to his local network and he was the first person who introduced the sign @ with the email denoting the computer name after the @ sign. 

Now hold your breath - The first email was sent between two terminals which was kept aside and ARPANET network was used to communicate between these two computers and the first email message was sent to another was " QWERTYUIOP" and This email facilities was limited till 1988.

The big change occurred in the field of Email when Steve Dorner written the first email client as Eudora and now , the rest is history.


So , waiting for another email in your inbox. 

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