![]() ![]() Over a series of RFCs, conventions were refined for sending mail messages over the File Transfer Protocol. In 1971 the first ARPANET network mail was sent, introducing the now-familiar address syntax with the symbol designating the user's system address. ![]() Most developers of early mainframes and minicomputers developed similar, but generally incompatible, mail applications. HistoryĬomputer-based messaging between users of the same system became possible after the advent of time-sharing in the early 1960s, with a notable implementation by MIT's CTSS project in 1965. Īn Internet email consists of an envelope and content the content consists of a header and a body. The conventions for fields within emails-the “To,” “From,” “CC,” “BCC” etc.-began with RFC-680 in 1975. The service is often simply referred to as mail, and a single piece of electronic mail is called a message. EMail is a traditional form used in RFCs for the "Author's Address".EMAIL was used by CompuServe starting in April 1981, which popularized the term.The original usage in June 1979 occurred in the journal Electronics in reference to the United States Postal Service initiative called E-COM, which was developed in the late 1970s and operated in the early 1980s. ![]()
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