Hawk Wings » ARPANet http://www.hawkwings.net Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:44:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The history of email http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/19/the-history-of-email/ http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/19/the-history-of-email/#comments Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:28:29 +0000 Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/19/the-history-of-email/ emailoverloadTom 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 Similar Posts:

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