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The Timeline of Emails

By MD3721@k12.sd.us

  • The development of Emails

    The development of Emails
    Ray Tomlinson developed a system for sending messages. He added the @ symbol to represent addresses.

  • The first head of the state used Email.

    The first head of the state used Email.
    The first head of state to use Email was Queen Elizabeth 2.

  • The first Spam Email

    The first Spam Email
    Gary Thuerk was a manager who was working and sent a marketing email that made a whopping $13 million. He can also be known as the father of spam.

  • The first commercial email.

    The first commercial email.
    The first commercially available email was released by Microsoft, not Google, called MSMail.

  • Emails were limited to basic ASCII formatting.

    Emails were limited to basic ASCII formatting.
    Emails had been limited to absic ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Intercahnge) formatting. Combination of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) that had supported other character sets and attachments.

  • The rise of webmail

    The rise of webmail
    First you had to use the mail app that was installed on your PC but then it became possible to access Outlook.

  • The banning of unsolicited emails

    The banning of unsolicited emails
    No regulation meant spam became a huge problem.

  • The invention of Gmail

    The invention of Gmail
    Paul Buchheit a google engineer experimented with email and ended up inventing Gmail.