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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

E-mail Inventor: "I didn't foresee spam"

At around 7pm one autumn evening in 1971, the first message using Mr. Tomlinson's fledgling software, known then as the 'Send Message Program,' travelled the short distance of a metre from one computer to a neighbouring machine, and electronic mail was born.

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