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Inventor
Ray Tomlinson, a computer scientist in Massachusetts, wrote a computer program that let people to send e-mails. -
MAIL&MLFL
MAIL& MLFL were added to FTP program to provide standard network transport capabilites for email transmission. -
The @ symbol is invented.
The @ symbol is invented by Ray Tomlinson. -
UNIX operating system
The DARPA program manager Steve Walker intiated a project at RAND to develop an MSG email capability for the UNIX operating system. -
First university to offer email
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. -
Alanet
The American Library Association will inaugurate Alanet, a new electronic & information service. -
How email got popular.
Steve Dorner invents an Education application that gave a popular face to email by providing a graphical user interface for email management. -
The first email realease on Lotus Notes.
The first release of Lotus Notes email software. 35,000 copies are sold in the first year. -
Third email release
Microsoft releases Internet Mail &News 1.0, a feature of its third release of Internet Explorer. Later renamed outlook. -
Email world wide
About 10 million users world wide have free web mail accounts. -
Microsoft over Hotmail
Microsoft buys over Hotmail $400m. -
Email's 30th anniversary
Email celebrates its 30th anniversary with virtually every business in the developed world signed on. -
Spam Legislation Law
Congress had considred spam legislation for more than five years. -
CAN SPAM act
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. -
Email now
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.
