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The first Internet email sent to Germany via CSNET was from Laura Breeden to Michael Rotert and Werner Zorn as a carbon copy at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) on August 3, 1984. [111] [112] The first email sent from outer space was August 9, 1991, Space Shuttle mission STS-43. [113]
The term email, short for "electronic mail", first appeared in the 1970s. [4] [5] The term snail mail is a retronym to distinguish it from the quicker email. Various dates have been given for its first use. [6] [7] [8]
Freiburger Code [3] [4] University of Freiburg — 1955–56 Sequentielle Formelübersetzung Fritz Bauer and Karl Samelson Boehm 1955–56 IT Team led by Alan Perlis: Laning and Zierler 1955 PRINT IBM 1958 IPL II (implementation) Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, Herbert A. Simon: IPL I 1956–58 LISP (concept) John McCarthy: IPL 1957 COMTRAN: Bob ...
The first email Tomlinson sent was a test. It was not preserved and Tomlinson describes it as insignificant, something like "QWERTYUIOP." This is commonly misquoted as "The first e-mail was QWERTYUIOP." [22] Tomlinson later commented that these "test messages were entirely forgettable and I have, therefore, forgotten them." [23] At first, his ...
November 20, 1985 — Microsoft releases the first version of Windows The original Windows 1 was released in November 1985. Microsoft founder Bill Gates spearheaded the development, which was ...
In 1971 the first ARPANET network mail was sent, introducing the now-familiar address syntax with the '@' symbol designating the user's system address. [18] Over a series of RFCs, conventions were refined for sending mail messages over the File Transfer Protocol. Proprietary electronic mail systems soon began to emerge.
Although there is no exact date known, between 618 and 907 CE —the period of the Tang Dynasty— the first printing of books started in China. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The oldest extant printed book is a work of the Diamond Sutra and dates back to 868 CE, during the Tang Dynasty. [ 16 ]
1911: The cloud chamber, the first particle detector, is invented by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. 1912: The first commercial slot cars or more accurately model electric racing cars operating under constant power were made by Lionel (USA) and appeared in their catalogues in 1912. 1912: The first use of articulated trams by Boston Elevated Railway.