The man credited with sending the first email...

[MikeH]

The man credited with inventing and sending the first email died today. I wonder who he sent it to?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35742210

 

[JordiCP]

I like the sentence in the article

"The first use of network email announced its own existence."

 

[b4auser1]

The man credited with inventing and sending the first email died today. I wonder who he sent it to?

I read that Ray Tomlinson didn't save the first e-mails. Ray Tomlinson explained, that he had just composed the e-mail texts from different lines without any sense.

 

[ilan]

The man credited with inventing and sending the first email died today.

weird, it is the same date alexander bell patented the phone.

Bell's patent 174,465, was issued to Bell on March 7, 1876, by the U.S. Patent Office. Bell's patent covered "the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically ... by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound"[80][N 16] Bell returned to Boston the same day and the next day resumed work, drawing in his notebook a diagram similar to that in Gray's patent caveat.

phone & email = most used way to communicate.