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email invented and developed
Ray Tomlinson invented and developed electronic mail, as we know it today. -
The Queen’s First Email
Forty-four years ago today, the Queen sent the first-ever royal email. The Queen visited the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, a telecommunications research Centre in Malvern, England, and using ARPANET the computer network that eventually morphed into the current internet making her the first royal to send an email. -
The First Spam Email
a guy named Gary Thuerk. He was the marketing manager at Digital Equipment Company. Sent what is widely recognized as the first spam ever. A message trying to sell computers. -
Making Email Simpler
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) standardized the way mail servers send and receive messages. It’s partly based on the SNDMSG program that Tomlinson created at ARPANET. SMTP is what email clients use to send messages to mail servers and on to the recipients. -
Outlook’s Ancestor
Microsoft unveiled MSMail, their first commercial email program, around the end of the decade. Versions were available for both PCs and Macs. It served as the Exchange and Outlook products' forerunner. Since then, Microsoft has been giving email developers grief! -
Email in Space
it took 20 years for the first email to be sent from space. It was transmitted from the space shuttle Atlantis by Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson on August 28, 1991. To be precise, the two NASA astronauts sent the message via AppleLink, an online service created by Apple for communicating with its dealers and partners. -
the Birth of Webmail
The history of email moved so quickly, it’s easy to forget that, for quite some time, you had to send and receive email on a specific software program. Phillip Hallam-Baker, a cyber-security expert working for CERN developed the first version of webmail. But his version was only a test and never got released to the public. -
Defining Spam.
It was an advertisement for a presentation by Digital Equipment Corporation for their DECSYSTEM-20 products sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketer of theirs. The reaction to it was almost universally negative, and for a long time there were no further instances.