The History Of Email

Let us begin by identifying what an email is. An email is a way of messaging others via electronic devices. Currently over 600 million people use email as a method of communication in the modern world due to its ease of use and accessibility.

The man credited with its invention in 1972 was Ray Tomlinson. Ray Tomlinson worked as an ARPANET (the system in place before the global internet) contractor and it was he whom chose the @ symbol to denote exchanging messages between peoples computers, thus providing people with an easy way to identify who exactly the message was from and whom they were sending to. The first email ever sent between was between two computers located within a short distance of each other and read “QWERTYUIOP”. In 1975 a man whom was named John Vital created a piece of software to organize emails, this was a huge advancement for emails and has led to further developments of the sort. However, even before these advances there was an early method of computer messaging. It began with people leaving small message files on people’s computers (as one would do so with office notes), then evolved into a system which allowed messages to be sent between users of a single computer; until eventually allowing people to message people on other computers at close range and has continued to advance to what we have today.