5 Facts that went down the History of E-mail

Today, there are more individual e-mail messages sent on the Internet more than data of any other kind.

But, do you know:

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"The first e-mail ever to be sent was in 1972 and on the first Computer Network ever to be created"

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"Ray Tomlinson is the person crowned with 'inventing e-mail'. First, he invented a simple program for sending files between computers. The software opened a connection, sent a file to another computer and then sent a message back to say that the file had arrived safely at its destination. Since e-mail boxes in computers are really just files, the next step was simple. Tomlinson changed his program so that it carried a mail message from one computer and added it to a mail box of another computer. This is how the era began."

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"Ray Tomlinson was the person who chose the @ sign, which means at, in e-mail addresses."

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"In 1976, Elizabeth II, the Queen of UK sent her first e-mail."

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"The US postal service delivered 101 billion pieces of paper mail in 1998. Estimates for e-mail messages in the same year range from 618 billion to 4 trillion."