"Mr Watson — Come here —I want to see you"
These were the first words spoken by Alexander Graham Bell after the invention of Telephone. I recently came across this and wanted to know what would have been the world's first email. As usual Google came to the rescue and I could get the following info.
Developer: Ray Tomlinson (also the first person to put '@' symbol in emails)
Year:1971 (SNDMSG was the program used for sending the email )
His email id: tomlinson@bbn-tenexa (BBN- his employer; Tenexa - Operating System)
However the saddest part is - the exact email message that was sent, was lost :( . Tomlinson later stated that the email consisted of something 'insignificant in content' (as he was using for test purposes) and was something like 'QWERTYUIOP' (First row of alphabets in keyboard).
So, though not sure, hopefully the world's first email should have been something like 'QWERTYUIOP'!!
Pretty Interesting to knw that the first e-mail made no sense at all!
ReplyDeleteBTW, this post made me to think of the e-mail that I sent! The search enquiry returned a blank result.. I really don remember it!
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