Almost all of us use email in our daily lives, from sending a quick message to a friend, asking someone for permission for something, or sharing media. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson created a basic message system between computers, and began using the @ symbol as the address for each messages. Seven years later, in 1978, 14-year old Shiva Ayyadurai, wrote over 50,000 lines of code to create the first modern email program, complete with many of the same features we enjoy today. Without this early form of telecommunications between computers the modern day internet that we take for granted wouldn’t be the same, and short and long messages would be harder to send.
Sources:
Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org
Time – http://techland.time.com
History of Email – http://www.historyofemail.com/
Net History – http://www.nethistory.info
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