Tom Van Vleck, who worked on the Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) system in modern computing’s prehistory, has written a history of email and early adventures in instant messaging.

Here you can read about the very beginnings of email in the CTSS project at MIT, the birth of ARPANet and its contribution to email and Ray Tomlinson‘s “invention” of the @ sign as an addressing convention.

It also contains a link to Brad Templeton’s History of Spam .email, history, spam, ARPANet, Multics, CTSS, RFC

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Tags: ARPANet, CTSS, email, history, Multics, RFC, spam

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