COMPUTER NETWORKING

INTRODUCTION

INTERNET HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This is the year when email was invented.
A
1991
B
1971
C
1969
D
1994
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The first network email was sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971. The email to himself said “something like QWERTYUIOP”.

Detailed explanation-2: -Here, he gives his version of how he invented the email. Ray Tomlinson is universally credited as the creator of email as part of a program for ARPANET in 1971.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Ray Tomlinson, of BBN, sent the first message across the network in 1971, initiating the use of the “” sign to separate the names of the user and the user’s machine. He sent a message from one Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10 computer to another PDP-10. The two machines were placed next to each other.

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