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The (R)evolution of Email

„RE the ëvolution @ @ 区 of email We send 2 billion emails a day from our phones, computers and tablets. Email is a crucial part of how we communicate because it is so quick, easy and cost-effective. But have you ever wondered how it all began? 1965 The concept of email is explored at MIT. In 1961, the "Compatible Time- Sharing System" was begun at the MIT Computation Center. By 1965, hundreds of registered users from MIT and other New 1971 The first email message is sent via network. Although markinga historic moment in the evolution of commu- England colleges were provided simultaneous access to MIT's com- puter from remote locations. Users could log in to MIT's IBM 7094 to store files on a shared disk. They soon discovered they could leave text files with names like "TO BILL" nication, the first email message itself was less than awe-inspiring. Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson, working on the precursor to the Internet, a network of computers called ARPANET built for the U.S. Defense Department, sent the first ever text message from one computer to another. (Never mind that both computers were sitting right next to each other in Cambridge, Mass.). The historic message itself? on common file directories for other users to read. Q The IBM 7094 console Estimated current number of regular email users: (about 1.3 billion) 1,38, 1,300,000,000 1976 Queen Elizabeth becomes the first head of state to send an email. Ener 1978 Spam is invented. SPAM Simplified Mainf me-Based E-Mail Debuts No, not the lunchmeat (whose trademarked name is fiercely guarded by a team of Hormel Foods Corporation lawyers.) In 1978, Gary Thuerk asked his assistant, Carl Gartley, to write a message advertising a new model of DEC computer and to send it to 1982 First printed use of the word "E-Mail" appears in a July, 1982, issue of Computerworld. 393 ARPANET users. Reaction was overwhelmingly negative, but it did generate sales. Unwanted mass emails began being called spam in reference to a Monty Python sketch first televised in 1970. Centurion Spam, spam, spam, spam ... 1983 MCI Mail, the first commercial email service, is offered to the public. 1988– 1997 Commercial email products explode. 1988 Microsoft Mail, the first email product widely used by the public, is released, interestingly enough, only for the Mac. 1999 A fraudulent chain email stating that Bill Gates will pay you to "forward this email to your friends" circulates. 1989 CompuServe offers email service to its subscribers. Millions 1996 Hotmail, originally named "HOTMAIL" (HTML, get it?) is launched, offering one of the first free, Web-based email services. HTML emails become prevalent. 1997 of people forward it. 2007 Microsoft Outlook is released. 1997 Google makes Gmail available to the WORLD and amasses 350 million users. Yahoo! offers Yahoo! Mail. 2008 2011 The Associated Press style- book changes "e-mail" to "email," and the Oxford English Dictionary officially recognizes LOL, OMG, TMI and FYI as words. Presidential candidate Barack Obama compiles a database of more than Send me your 13 Million email addresses. CHANGE 2012 and BEYOND! Email and social media marry. As it creeps into its mid-40s, the email we know is living on borrowed time, communications experts say. The non-stop clutter of "cs" and “reply alls" are already spurring some companies to institute all-out email bans! A new generation of communicators prefers immediacy and brevity, so expect future electronic communication to look more like a Twitter stream and a lot less like a stuffed inbox. N LOL IN I BTW ROF OMG EN ROFL MG! TT HO TTYL OM BI IM AR TTY OMG W R OTFL TTPN TFN LOL TMI BTW L BFN TMI IM TW Sources: www.brighthub.com; http://www.eneaca 303/ap-stylebook-its-now-email-instead-of-e-mail/ .org/wiki/yahoo-mail; http://www.infoplease.com http://www.poynter.org/latest- http://www.huffingtonpost.com; http://techie-buzz.com; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic) http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/microsoft-aol.asp; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Mail http://books.google.com/books?id=19x1-BjfXSwC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1 http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm http://www.mfauscette.com/software_technology_partn/2012/02/the-future-of-email-is-social.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/future-email-looks-lot-twitter-172430622.html Copyright ©2012 MyFreeEmailSearch.com | All rights reserved. Designed by InfoMonkeys.com ●I G „RE the ëvolution @ @ 区 of email We send 2 billion emails a day from our phones, computers and tablets. Email is a crucial part of how we communicate because it is so quick, easy and cost-effective. But have you ever wondered how it all began? 1965 The concept of email is explored at MIT. In 1961, the "Compatible Time- Sharing System" was begun at the MIT Computation Center. By 1965, hundreds of registered users from MIT and other New 1971 The first email message is sent via network. Although markinga historic moment in the evolution of commu- England colleges were provided simultaneous access to MIT's com- puter from remote locations. Users could log in to MIT's IBM 7094 to store files on a shared disk. They soon discovered they could leave text files with names like "TO BILL" nication, the first email message itself was less than awe-inspiring. Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson, working on the precursor to the Internet, a network of computers called ARPANET built for the U.S. Defense Department, sent the first ever text message from one computer to another. (Never mind that both computers were sitting right next to each other in Cambridge, Mass.). The historic message itself? on common file directories for other users to read. Q The IBM 7094 console Estimated current number of regular email users: (about 1.3 billion) 1,38, 1,300,000,000 1976 Queen Elizabeth becomes the first head of state to send an email. Ener 1978 Spam is invented. SPAM Simplified Mainf me-Based E-Mail Debuts No, not the lunchmeat (whose trademarked name is fiercely guarded by a team of Hormel Foods Corporation lawyers.) In 1978, Gary Thuerk asked his assistant, Carl Gartley, to write a message advertising a new model of DEC computer and to send it to 1982 First printed use of the word "E-Mail" appears in a July, 1982, issue of Computerworld. 393 ARPANET users. Reaction was overwhelmingly negative, but it did generate sales. Unwanted mass emails began being called spam in reference to a Monty Python sketch first televised in 1970. Centurion Spam, spam, spam, spam ... 1983 MCI Mail, the first commercial email service, is offered to the public. 1988– 1997 Commercial email products explode. 1988 Microsoft Mail, the first email product widely used by the public, is released, interestingly enough, only for the Mac. 1999 A fraudulent chain email stating that Bill Gates will pay you to "forward this email to your friends" circulates. 1989 CompuServe offers email service to its subscribers. Millions 1996 Hotmail, originally named "HOTMAIL" (HTML, get it?) is launched, offering one of the first free, Web-based email services. HTML emails become prevalent. 1997 of people forward it. 2007 Microsoft Outlook is released. 1997 Google makes Gmail available to the WORLD and amasses 350 million users. Yahoo! offers Yahoo! Mail. 2008 2011 The Associated Press style- book changes "e-mail" to "email," and the Oxford English Dictionary officially recognizes LOL, OMG, TMI and FYI as words. Presidential candidate Barack Obama compiles a database of more than Send me your 13 Million email addresses. CHANGE 2012 and BEYOND! Email and social media marry. As it creeps into its mid-40s, the email we know is living on borrowed time, communications experts say. The non-stop clutter of "cs" and “reply alls" are already spurring some companies to institute all-out email bans! A new generation of communicators prefers immediacy and brevity, so expect future electronic communication to look more like a Twitter stream and a lot less like a stuffed inbox. N LOL IN I BTW ROF OMG EN ROFL MG! TT HO TTYL OM BI IM AR TTY OMG W R OTFL TTPN TFN LOL TMI BTW L BFN TMI IM TW Sources: www.brighthub.com; http://www.eneaca 303/ap-stylebook-its-now-email-instead-of-e-mail/ .org/wiki/yahoo-mail; http://www.infoplease.com http://www.poynter.org/latest- http://www.huffingtonpost.com; http://techie-buzz.com; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic) http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/microsoft-aol.asp; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Mail http://books.google.com/books?id=19x1-BjfXSwC&source=gbs_all_issues_r&cad=1 http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm http://www.mfauscette.com/software_technology_partn/2012/02/the-future-of-email-is-social.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/future-email-looks-lot-twitter-172430622.html Copyright ©2012 MyFreeEmailSearch.com | All rights reserved. Designed by InfoMonkeys.com ●I G

The (R)evolution of Email

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How did email begin, and where is it going? This mod infographic charts the origins of email in 1965 through 2012 and beyond. Our team researched, wrote and designed this psychedelic piece for the hip...

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