Timeline of Emails

By MAJORTIMEMAN
  • 1 BCE

    1971

    Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sends first electronic mail message
  • 1 BCE

    1976

    Queen Elizabeth becomes the first head of state to send an electronic mail message.
  • 1 BCE

    1978

    The First electronically sent advertisement goes out over a network of government and university computers.
  • 1 BCE

    1982

    The word Email is first used
  • 1 BCE

    1982

    The first ever smiley "emoticon" is invented by Scott Fahlman
  • 1 BCE

    1989

    Radio man Elwood Edwards Records AOL's iconic "welcome", "file done", "good bye" and "you got mail"
  • 1 BCE

    1997

    Microsoft buys Hotmail for $400 million
  • 1 BCE

    1997

    Microsoft outlook is released
  • 1 BCE

    1998

    Warner bros releases you've got mail which made $250 at the box office
  • 1 CE

    2007

    Anti-Phishing security protocol DKIM is adopted by the internet engineering task force
  • 1 CE

    2001

    Reach mail is created
  • 1 CE

    1999

    A fraudulent email claims bill gates plans to share his wealth with internet users circulates around the internet
  • 1 CE

    2003

    George bush signs the CAN-SPAM act, the first national standards for sending commercial emails.
  • 1 CE

    2004

    FTC codifies email spam laws.
  • 1 CE

    2004

    Multimedia emails are introduced after the MMS world congress in Vienna
  • 1 CE

    2005

    SPF, The first technology that verifies email senders identities is established
  • 1 CE

    2007

    Google makes Gmail available to the public
  • 1 CE

    2008

    Obama Compiles a database of over 13 million email addresses
  • 1 CE

    2011

    The associated press style book changes "e-mail" to "email"
  • 1 CE

    1998

    The word Spam was added to the oxford English dictionary