EMAIL'S 41st ANNIVERSARY : "Know Lot.... In Short"

1. What is email : Electronic mail, also known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients
2. Idea intiated by : V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai a 14 year old .
3. Inventors(not being contradictory):  TechDirt, The Washington Post, and Roy Tomlinson.[It was never invented, it evolved from very simple beginnings]
4. year : 1971
5. Person who sent the first email : US programmer Ray Tomlinson sent the first email 40 years ago.
6. First email : The first email was sent between two computers that were actually sitting besides each other. However, the ARPANET network was used as the connection between the two. The first email message was "QWERTYUIOP".
7. What was it called at first : The first true email system was called MAILBOX and it was used at MIT as early as 1965
8. Was email address required : before internetworking email was only possible for people that used the same computer. As a result, there was no need for an actual email address or sending an email.
9. @ symbol : in 1972 Ray Tomlinson played a huge role in creating the way email is sent and received and is the one who chose the @ sign to denote a particular destination for an email.
10. SNDMSG : Another early program to send messages on the same computer was called SNDMSG.

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