The Next Web notes that October marks the fortieth anniversary of the first sent e-mail. Obvious jokes about how long it was before the first spam email was sent aside, October’s a momentous month for those of us who use email. These days, that’s all of us.
It was forty years ago this month that the first email was sent via the attractively named SNDMSG utility on ARPANET. It’s not clear as to the exact date of the first email, but network engineer Ray Tomlinson was the man responsible for sending the first email, in this case to himself. After all, who else had an email address back then?
Questions of date accuracy aside, what do you get a forty year old that gets around a lot, associates with some very shady characters and logically can’t eat bacon? [The Next Web]
Matt
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 2:19 PMHappy birthday email!
chugs
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 2:22 PMfor a couple years I did tech support and I must say the next time I have to spell out m…a..i..l i honestly will shoot the man who made email. I will fucking murder him.
ellick
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 2:42 PMi’ve got to ask why are you angry? it’s not like he invented the word “mail” too.
Nick
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 5:27 PMI’ve never sent an email in my life.
Max
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 12:47 AMAre you a time-traveller from the 60′s? Or just really, really young?
Ash
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:11 AMPossibly both.