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Ray Tomlinson develops the first program that can send email messages, via the Arpanet, between people using different computers. (Programs existed previously that could send such messages between users logging onto the same computer.) 15 Nov 1971: US The Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor, is released.
After the second world war he established the Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester where he created the project that built the world's first stored-program computer, the Manchester Baby. 1962 Nygaard, Kristen: With Ole-Johan Dahl, invented the proto-object oriented language SIMULA. 1642 Pascal, Blaise
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The first email sent from outer space was August 9, 1991, Space Shuttle mission STS-43. [113] Bill Clinton was the first U.S. president to use Internet email in the 1990s, including a reply to an email from the prime minister of Sweden in 1994. [114] [115] [116] [117]
The first prototype of a computer mouse, as designed by Bill English from Engelbart's sketches [1]. Early dynamic information devices such as radar displays, where input devices were used for direct control of computer-created data, set the basis for later improvements of graphical interfaces. [2]
Tomlinson was asked to change a program called SNDMSG, which sent messages to other users of a time-sharing computer, to run on TENEX. [20] He added code he took from CPYNET to SNDMSG so messages could be sent to users on other computers—the first email. [21] The first email Tomlinson sent was a test.
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Grace Hopper worked as one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I. [12] She later created a 500-page manual for the computer. [13] Hopper is often falsely credited with coining the terms "bug" and "debugging," when she found a moth in the Mark II, causing a malfunction; [14] however, the term was in fact already in use when she found ...