{"id":3434,"date":"2020-11-02T05:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2021-01-20T04:34:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:34:47","slug":"a-brief-history-of-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/a-brief-history-of-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1969, the very first message was sent from one computer to other on ARPANET and it looked like the following:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/email-history.png\" alt=\"emails history\" width=\"384\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/email-history.png 384w, https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/email-history-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roy Tomlinson was the first inventor of <strong>Electronic mail<\/strong> in 1971. He developed the first system that sent electronic emails between one system to multiple hosts across the <strong>ARPANET<\/strong> with the @ symbol to link the <strong>user name<\/strong> with the destination server.<\/p>\n<p>It was a question from many of the people that How would one indicate within a network where the message should go when sending messages from one computer to another? Roy Tomlinson had an answer:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-symbol.png\" alt=\"the symbol\" width=\"384\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-symbol.png 384w, https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-symbol-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/the-symbol-120x80.png 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><br \/>\nThis concept of communicating through the organization via emails was the inspiration for the advent of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>By the 1980s, the Internet, the infancy period of Internet Service Providers (ISP), had started connecting people around the world, and emailing &#8220;hosting&#8221; sites, clamoring for their piece of the pie.<\/p>\n<p>For many new Internet users, electronic mail was the first practical application of this exciting new medium. By 1993, the term &#8220;electronic mail&#8221; had been replaced by &#8220;email&#8221; in public email, and Internet usage had become more widespread.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few years, America Online (AOL), Accomail, Hotmail, and Yahoo shaped the Internet and email landscape. He pumped in <a href=\"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/what-is-social-media-marketing\/\">marketing<\/a> dollars to expand the reach and expose a vastly wider audience to the benefits of the World Wide Web. Internet usage exploded in the late 1990s, growing from 55 million users in 1997 to 400 million by 1999.<\/p>\n<p><small>If you have skills in PHP programming and you want to enhance your career in this field, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studysection.com\/php-programming-foundation\">PHP certification<\/a> from StudySection can help you reach your desired goals. Both beginner level and expert level PHP certification exams are offered by StudySection along with other programming certification exams. <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1969, the very first message was sent from one computer to other on ARPANET and it looked like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[584,50],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A brief history of Emails (also known as Electronic Mails)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Roy Tomlinson developed the first system that sent electronic emails between one system to multiple hosts across the ARPANET.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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