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The history of email entails an evolving set of technologies and standards that culminated in the email systems in use today. [1] Computer-based messaging between users of the same system became possible following the advent of time-sharing in the early 1960s, with a notable implementation by MIT 's CTSS project in 1965.
1965: Pioneers of email at MIT. 1971: Ray Tomlinson invents email at ARPANET. 1976: The queen makes email history. 1978: The birth of email spam. 1978: The other inventor (or how email got its name) 1982: A protocol to make email simpler. 1988: Microsoft Outlook’s ancestor. 1989: The voice of AOL email. 1991: Email in space.
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The incoming Class of 1985 to MIT entered in the Fall of 1981. The front-page article in Tech Talk, MIT's official newspaper highlighted the work of four incoming students, one being the invention of Email. Even while at MIT, Shiva continued, for a few more years to consult as a Research Fellow for UMDNJ to continue additional work on Email.
In a 2011 article published by Time, Ayyadurai claimed to have invented email, as a teenager; in August 1982, he registered the copyright on an email application he had written. Historians strongly dispute this account because email was already in use in the early 1970s.
Nov 15, 2011 · His task: replicate the University’s traditional mail system electronically. And with that, email—as we currently know it—was born. In 1981, Shiva took honors at the Westinghouse Science Awards...
Feb 22, 2012 · A Piece of Email History Comes to the American History Museum. A groundbreaking early email program, written by a high school student in 1979, helps tell the story of this crucial technology’s...
Aug 18, 2017 · “On August 30, 1982, V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai received official recognition as the inventor of email from the US government for his 1978 invention," Dr. Michelson said in an introduction to a book, entitled “The History of Email.” Ayyadurai, by the way, plans to run for the United States Senate in Massachusetts.
