When and who developed the first email program?

Answer 1

hurry up and answer it!! i need it by FridayRay Tomlinson is credited with developing the first viable e-mail program in 1971 for use on the ARPANET. Although text messages were occassionally sent over the network, Tomlinson created the first program. He also initiated the "@" addressing convention used today to denote the user and host (user@host.net). The first e-mail message sent by Tomlinson was to all users on ARPANET and described how to send e-mail messages.

Answer 2

Ray Tomlinson in 1972. He wrote 2 program called SNDMAIL and READMAIL that sent messages accross the Arpanet, the first long distance switched packet network, forerunner of the internet.

Jon Postel and J. K. Reynolds published documents defining the more modern e-mail system we use today (RFC821 and RFC918) defining the SMTP (sending) and POP (receiving) protocols respectively. Note that, although they published the documents they didn't exactly invent the protocols, that was a wider group of people.

Answer 3

Ray Tomlinson, in 1971, was working on a time-sharing system (a system where multiple people have accounts on the same computer). He was working on the mail program that allowed these people to send messages to each other, and realized he could alter it so that people could send messages from one computer to another. He had two computers that were connected by the ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet. He needed a way to link the recipient's name and the machine that hosts his mailbox, and he decided to use the @ symbol. email was born.

Answer 4

something like 'qwertyuiop' (the top letters of the keyboard)

Answer 5

MIT's CTSS MAIL, created in 1965, is probably one of the earliest examples of an e-mail system, based on the CTSS file sharing system.

Answer 6

Ray Tomlinson

Answer 7

It was at MIT in the early 1970's.