INTRODUCTION
INTERNET HISTORY
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Question
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Ray Tomlinson
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Bill Gates
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Jeff Bezos
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Mark Zuckerberg
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The first network email was sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971. The email to himself said “something like QWERTYUIOP”.
Detailed explanation-3: -Raymond Tomlinson, the computer programmer who in 1971 invented email as it is known today and in the process transformed the “at” sign–from a sparely used price symbol to a permanent fixture in the lives of millions of computer users around the world, died on Saturday at his home in Lincoln, Mass. He was 74.