COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -Ray Tomlinson is generally recognized as sending the first electronic mail, between two different computers on the ARPANET, in 1971.

Detailed explanation-2: -Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was an American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET.

Detailed explanation-3: -Later, in 1972, Ray Tomlinson at BBN, designed a messaging program for use on the PDP-10 computer. The program consisted of two individual programs, SNDMSG for sending mail and READMAIL, a program to retrieve mail.