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The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) was finally finished and introduced by John Mauchly after three years of work.
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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.
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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.
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Tomlinson was the first to find a way to send messages via computer using the "@" symbol.
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Queen Elizabeth II of England was the first of the head of state to send an email.
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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.
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There were over 10 million email accounts world wide from this date on.
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30th anniversary of email.
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Microsoft bought Hotmail for $400 million
