History of the E-Mail

Believe it or not, E-Mail is much older than the Internet that we use at homes, schools, offices etc. E-Mail has been a revolution of 21st century with tonnes of mails sent worldwide, but e-mail was never invented, it evolved from very simple and minute beginnings. In the past E-Mails was just a small advance on what we nowadays know as a file directory. The first ever E-Mail type used was mailbox used at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1965. Throughout this time, people used a service called ‘SNDMSG’ which was used to send important messages to another computer, however this was like leaving a note for someone on their desk and was not always very effective. Ray Tomlinson who was working on building the first Internet during the time noticed this issue and wanted to enable to send E-Mails to various computers by creating E-Mail addresses via the sign ‘@’ that tells you who is at the computer. The first ever e-mail sent this way was between two computers next to each other and read “QWERTYUIOP”. For this vital invention he was later credited for inventing the E-Mail in 1972. As time passed by 1975 John Vittal developed the software to include three key commands. The main reason that the software was developed was in order to organise E-Mails and to send the E-Mails more effectively to people. These were some of the very early beginnings of the 21st century’s most used and loved handy tool – the E-Mail.