On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:54:43 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:

> Hi folks,

> found on the pages of WEB.DE an article saying that 30 years ago, in
> autumn of 1971, the 1st e-mail was sent by it's inventor, Ray Tomlinson.
> If anyone is interested and can read German: http://web.de and follow
> the "Spezial" link.


Thanks, Joerg. Lots of sites discuss Tomlinson and the invention of
email in English.  Nice story.

First email message was "Qwertyiop" or something like that. Sent from
one computer to another one that was sitting right next to it.






Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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