THE TRUTH!.....About EMAIL

Email! The most convenient and accessible Internet resource ever created. Sometimes as a people, we get so used to resources and tools being available for us, that we forget that these are some of the greatest accomplishments ever created by man. The email went from being an extremely limited investment, to being the most accessible tool on the Internet.
The email was not considered an email at all when it was created. Ian Peter refers to the email as "just a small advance on what we know these days as a file directory." A file directory is basically a folder in a computer. Directories can be organized and related to other directories. Using this strategy to leave a message on the computer was like leaving a note on someones desk. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology used a system like this called MAILBOX. They also used the program called SNDMSG (Ian Peter, 2004).

In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent himself an email between two computers in his office. It was the first email ever written (Kazmierczan, 1997).Electronic Mail was introduced in 1972. Ray Tomlinson, an MIT student, created and wrote the basic email message send and read software. Ray Tomlinson wrote his first program as an intern for IBM in 1960. After getting a job at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), he was contracted to the US Department of Defense to build ARPANET. Tomlinson created the program SNDMSG. While he was working on this extravagent program, he was also working on a program called CYPNET, a program that allowed for files to be transferred between computers on the ARPANET ("Inventor of Email", n.d.).
Before Internet working began, email could only be used to send messages to various users of the same computers. Once computers began to talk to each other over networks, the problem became a little more complex. The email needed to be able to have an envelope and address on it. To do this the scientist needed a means to indicate to whom letters should go that the electronic posties understood. Tomlinson picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another. So then, for anyone using Internet standards, it was simply a matter of nominating a name of the user@name of the computer(Ian Peter, 2004).
EMAIL BECAME THE SAVIOUR OF ARPANET!

Email has now evolved even more and has come a very long way. Today, people think of email as a convenient resource that is a standard of having the Internet. People fail to realize that the email is a luxury all in itself. When email finally became popular and mature enough in the Internet industry, it became a standard feature of the Internet. During this period in time, the email was on per-minute charges for individual dial up users.When the World Wide Web was created, email began to be made available through web resources such as Yahoo and Hotmail. These web resources allowed for the Internet to be made available at no cost and very accessible to those with computers. Now look at email. It is one of the single most important features of the web. Email is used daily by millions and millions of people who are in affiliations as small as schools and as big as Industries. The email is virtually the face of the web (Ian Peter, 2004).

References:
Kazmierczak, M. (1997). Internet history,Explosion.
Retrieved January 23, 2007 from www.mkaz.com/ebeab/history

Ian, P. (2004). The history of email.
Retrieved January 25, 2007 from www.nethistory.info/history%20of%20the%
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n.a. (n.d.). Ray Tomlinson, Inventor of email.
Retrieved January 25, 2007 from www.rit.edu/~jkg9634/imm/project2