chris Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 This is just a tidbit. Not really a post, just some information. The person who originally invented e-mail did it for his computer company for sending messages from one computer to another. Then he linked them up for sending to another company. Patented the idea, and his company madea fortune selling it. Ironicly, Hes a multi-millionaire, but he still drives some beat up old car, and lives in a small house. Thats a real nerd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 Al Gore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris Posted July 9, 2002 Author Share Posted July 9, 2002 no not al gore. even though he fits all those quality's. WAIT ::recalls a gore speech:: 'I practicly invented the internet' Oh yea, must be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 ARPAnet quickly became a forum for the exchange of information and ideas. The first major application developed for use on the ARPAnet was electronic mail. It was developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1972 and would allow those connected to the Internet to establish one-on-one communication with others at high speed. The term "spam", when referencing E-mail, has its roots go back to 1970, when apparently, according to the SVMN (Silicon Valley Mercury News), a Monty Python skit used the term "spam" in the scene in which conversation got drowned out by rowdy diners who sang about SPAMTM, the canned meat. Thereafter, "spam" became the metaphor for junk E-mail "drowning out" regular messages in in-boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 Oops, that was from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeks Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 hey blike..is that yer pic? lol yer a sexy bish if it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 Haha, actually thats natalie portman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris Posted July 10, 2002 Author Share Posted July 10, 2002 id bang the shit out of her. but keep that on the d-l. Kinda odd email got us talking bout some hot chick. :X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenel Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 E-mail and Hot Women go together like Peanut Butter and Buffalo Wings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syntax Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 no no you fools.. this is a real nerd... AND the government made e-mail. (I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syntax Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Oh my, how did I get a picture of blike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris Posted July 13, 2002 Author Share Posted July 13, 2002 no. the goverement didnt invent email. i still have the discover magazine with the article. and it says this guy did for his work. so . btw i wouldnt bang natalie portman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syntax Posted July 13, 2002 Share Posted July 13, 2002 I'm sorry, it was ARPAnet, the same people who created the internet created E-Mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phubuh Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 How could he make money off an open standard? I could write an smtpd right now and sell it for sixteen trillion dollars a pop, and whoever invented e-mail wouldn't get a dime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 Originally posted by blike The term "spam", when referencing E-mail, has its roots go back to 1970, when apparently, according to the SVMN (Silicon Valley Mercury News), a Monty Python skit used the term "spam" in the scene in which conversation got drowned out by rowdy diners who sang about SPAMTM, the canned meat. Thereafter, "spam" became the metaphor for junk E-mail "drowning out" regular messages in in-boxes. http://www.ironworks.com/comedy/python/spam.htm Originally posted by chris no not al gore. even though he fits all those quality's. WAIT ::recalls a gore speech:: 'I practicly invented the internet' Oh yea, must be. Help! We're being attacked by urban myths! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radical Edward Posted May 26, 2003 Share Posted May 26, 2003 Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri Help! We're being attacked by urban myths! or rather, we were attacked by urban myths many moons ago. what was it Gore said again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaKiri Posted May 26, 2003 Share Posted May 26, 2003 Originally posted by Radical Edward or rather, we were attacked by urban myths many moons ago. what was it Gore said again? It was about him being on a group that studied the possibility of expanding the internet to commercial as well as scientific or military uses. Something like that. Just like the Bill Gates 640k quote (IN THE MID EIGHTIES, THAT WAS ALL YOU NEEDED. NOTE HE SAID 'all that anyone needs IS 640k' (or whatever) NOT WILL NEED, YOU IDIOTS.) it's been blown out of proportion by idiots. In fact, there wasn't any proportion to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenel Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 The modern day e-mail system was created by one man, and one man only: Fafalone. Get 'em while he's single ladies, this man's a genious. :banana: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 Originally posted by kenel ...Get 'em while he's single ladies, this man's a genious. :banana: at your leisure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SyntaXVB5 Posted June 2, 2003 Share Posted June 2, 2003 E-Mail, like mostly everything else that's big was created in a university... Not sure of the name though. All I know is it's the same one that experienced the first exchange of data packets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MonkeyBoy_Z Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 From ... "When Wizards Stay Up Late - The Origins of The Internet" .... The first electronic-mail delivery engaging two machines was done one day in 1972 by a quiet engineer, Ray Tomlinson at BBN. Sometime earlier, Tomlinson had written a program fir Tenex, the BBN-grown operating system that, by now, was running on most of the ARPANET's PDP-10 machines. The mail program was written in two parts: To send messages, you'd use a program called SENDMSG; to receive mail, you'd use the other part called READMAIL. He hadn't actually intended for the program to be used on the ARPANET. Like other mailbox programs of the day, it was created for time-sharing systems and designed only to handle mail locally, within individual PDP-10's, not across them. But Tomlinson, an inveterate experimenter, decided to take advantage of having two PDP-10 computers set up in the Cambridge office; in fact, they were the same machinges BBN was using to connect to the ARPANET. Weeks earlier, Tomlinson had written an experimental file-transfer protocol called CPYNET. Now he modified the program so that it could carry a mail message from one machine and drop it into a file on another. When he tried it, and sent mail though his mail hadn't actually gone out onto the open network, it was a breakthrough; now there was nothing holding e-mail back from crossing the wider Net. Although in technical terms Tomlinson's program was trivial, culturally it was revolutionary. "SENDMSG opened the door," said Dave Crocker, the younger brother of Steve Crocker and an e-mail pioneer. "It created the first interconnectivity, then everyone took it from there." But how to get this invention to running out on the network? The answer lay in the file-transfer protocol. In July 1972, one evening at Tech Square at MIT, as Abhay Bhushan was writing the final specifications for the ARPANET file-transfer protocol, some-one suggested piggybacking Tomlinson's email programs onto the end product. Why not? If electronic messages could ride on CPYNET, they might just as well ride on the file-transfer protocol. Bhushan and others worked out some modifications. In August, when Jon Postel received an RFC outlining the e-mail feature, he thought to himself, "Now there's a nice hack." The ARPANET's first electronic mail-handling twins, named MAIL and MLFL, came to life. Tomlinson became well known for SENDMSG and CPYNET. But he became better known for a brilliant (he called it obvious) decision he made while writing those programs. He needed a way to separate, in the e-mail address, the name of the user from the machine the user was on. How should that be denoted? He wanted a character that would not, under any conceivable circumstances, be found in a user's name. He looked down at the keyboard he was using, a Model 33 Teletype, which almost everyon else on the NEt used, too. In addition to the letters and numerals there were about a dozen punctuation marks. "I got there first, so I got to choose any punctuation I wanted," Tomlinson said. "I chose the @ sign." The character also had the advantage of meaning "at" the designated institution. He had no idea he was creating an icon for the wired world So there you have it. Check it out at http://www.bbn.com if you like. Wow, what a first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 At a push I supose Morse would have been the real father of Electronic Mail, telegraphs and telegrams. I wonder how they mannaged to send MP3`s back then though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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