Email

By herpi

  • TENEX

    TENEX
    In the early 1970's, Ray Tomlinson was working on a small team developing the TENEX operating system, with local email programs called SNDMSG and READMAIL.

  • ARPANET

    ARPANET
    In late 1971, Tomlinson created the first ARPANET email application when he updated SNDMSG by adding a program called CPYNET capable of copying files over the network, and informed his colleagues by sending them an email using the new program with instructions on how to use it.

  • Invented the Email

    Invented the Email
    Ray Tomlinson inventing email in 1972.

  • Organize email

    Organize email
    In 1975 John Vital developed some software to organize email.

  • DARPA

    DARPA
    In 1975, the DARPA program manager Steve Walker initiated a project at RAND to develop an MSG-like email capability for the Unix operating system.

  • Email taken off

    Email taken off
    By 1976 email had really taken off, and commercial packages began to appear.

  • Upgraded

    Upgraded
    Since 1982, Marshall Rose and others have upgraded and maintained MH, and it has become the standard email application for the Unix environment.

  • Mail system

    Mail system
    Shortly thereafter, in 1989, the Compuserve mail system also connected to the NSFNET, through the Ohio State University network.

  • network

    network
    In 1993, the large network service providers America Online and Delphi started to connect their proprietary email systems to the Internet, beginning the large scale adoption of Internet email as a global standard.