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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.
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 ...
Before the introduction of books, writing on bone, shells, wood and silk was prevalent in China long before the 2nd century BCE, until paper was invented in China around the 1st century CE. China's first recognizable books called jiance or jiandu, were made of rolls of thin split and dried bamboo bound together with hemp, silk, or leather. [14]
2006: America Online drops its old name to officially become AOL and no longer charges for email services. The company moves its headquarters from Dulles, Va. to Manhattan. The company moves its ...
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 ...