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1971
A computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson who worked the company Bolt Beranek and Newman, devloped a system for sending messages between computers that use the @ symbol to identify adresses. The system hained popularity by linking users on the Arpnet (americas department of defence) -
1972
Larry Roberts writes the first email managemant program thta develops the ablity to list, select, forward, and respond to messages -
1976
Queen Elizabeth II sends an email message on Arpnet , thus becomeing the first head of state to do so -
1978
The First electronically sent advertisement goes out over a network of government and university computers. TCIP/IP was developed by Danny Cohen, David Reed and john shoch -
1982
The word Email was copyrighted by Shiva Ayyuduria. This was at a time when email was in its "wildwest" stage where is was new and open right for the taking. -
1988
Steve Dorner creates Eudora, the first commercial product widely used for reading and sending email on LANS. This was a major developent causeing the spread of the commercial use of emails. -
1989
Compuserve and MCI Mail beomce the first formally sanctioned email carriers connected to the internet. -
1991
The first release of the lotus notes email client. It is still currently in use but rebranded as IBM notes -
Period: to
A large amount of email clients launched
In this time period the following clients where launched:
Microsoft outlook - 1992 : made to compeate with Lotus notes
AOL- 1993: another competitor
Echomail-1995: first intergrate email management system to help business handle large volimes of emails
Hotmail - 1996: launched to compeat becomes most used internet based email
Yahoo mail- 1997: the alternative to hotmail -
1999
Blackberry makes accesing emails form mobile phones posssible. -
2003
George bush signs the CAN-SPAM act, the first national standards for sending commercial emails. This was crucial to tone down on the amount of advertisments that where sent to peoples emails. -
2005
SPF released to validate email addresses to control SPAM emails.
This was due to the problem of there being lots of SPAM emails going around and taking up space on peoples computers and mail servers. -
2007
Gmail was relesed and is now one of the most used emails to date. -
2009
The iphone is released and with its wifi capabiltys it makes reading emails on the far more accesible to the general public.
