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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]
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.
First-Class Mail in the U.S. includes postcards, letters, large envelopes (flats), and small packages, providing each piece weighs 13 ounces (370 g) or less. Delivery is given priority over second-class ( newspapers and magazines ), third class (bulk advertisements), and fourth-class mail (books and media packages).
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
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 ...
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 ...
The first programmers of ENIAC were Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Meltzer, Fran Bilas, and Ruth Lichterman. none (unique language) 1946 ENIAC Short Code: Richard Clippinger and John von Neumann after Alan Turing: none (unique language) 1947–52 ARC/Birkbeck Assembler: Kathleen Booth: ENIAC Short Code [1] 1948
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.