Regarding E-Mail

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Sir,

I want to know Who invented e-mail?

Which is the first Web site to launch mailing facility?

Sachida

-- Anonymous, June 16, 2002

Answers

Ray Tomlinson in late 1971. See http://www.pretext.com/mar98/features/story2.htm

As such email predates the "web" which was first proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in around 1989.

-- http://www.benmeadowcroft.com

-- Anonymous, July 30, 2002


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