December 06, 2001
30-Year Path of E-Mail
30-Year Path of E-Mail
Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer scientist at Bolt, Beranek & Newman, an engineering firm in Cambridge, Mass., sat down at his computer and wrote a relatively simple computer program that enabled electronic messages to travel from one computer to another.
Posted by rshah at December 6, 2001 12:00 PM