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the e-mailNow an integral part of our daily lives, it was a revolutionary innovation in the early 1970s. First email Ray TomlinsonSent by an American engineer in 1971, it changed the world of communications. In this article, we describe in detail how this event occurred and how it influenced subsequent technological development.
Ray Tomlinson and the first email
Ray Tomlinson worked at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), the company responsible for developing ARPANET. ARPANET was the first operational network, which can be considered the forerunner of the Internet. Tomlinson's task was to find a reliable way to send messages over the network.
The birth of email
In 1971, Tomlinson developed a program that allowed messages to be sent between two different computers over the ARPANET network. The first email was a simple test message he sent to himself. Although the contents of the message were lost over time, Tomlinson later revealed that he may have sent a random string of characters such as “QWERTYUIOP.”
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The impact of email on communication
The invention of email was a major step in the history of communications. It enabled instant messaging over long distances, revolutionizing the world of business and personal communications. E-mail quickly spread among ARPANET users, and in subsequent decades became one of the most important applications of the Internet.
Evolution of email
In the 1970s and early 1980s, email continued to evolve and became available to an increasing number of people. The introduction of SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) made it possible to standardize email sending, which further contributed to the spread of email. By the 1990s, email had become an essential part of daily life and has continued to evolve ever since.
summary
Invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1971, it was a milestone in the history of communications. Email has revolutionized personal and business communications and radically changed the world. Without Tomlinson's invention, the Internet as we know it today would have been unimaginable. The story of sending the first email reminds us that one idea can change the world.
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