Take advantage of our free, seven-day trial. Test Today. Kasey Steinbrinck is Email on Acid's content marketing manager. He's created lead-generating digital marketing plans for a wide variety of organizations and understands how valuable content fuels a powerful email strategy.
Thanks for your input, Ryan. The point of this article was simply to provide the details of the ongoing debate — not to take sides. I would encourage anyone curious about the history of email to spend thirty seconds investigating Dr. To gloss over these pertinent details seems to me to be negligence at best, and bothsidesism at worst. Yeah, it does get pretty strange. Personally, the Tomlinson story seems way more legit to me and to most.
That being said, lots of innovative people past and current hold controversial views: Edison, Ford, Musk, etc. But you are operating a platform with a degree of reputation. You even come up as one of the top search results on the subject. Such a position comes with a responsibility. Ayyadurai has such a bizarre, contradictory, and — frankly -opportunistic history, it does a disservice to the maintenance of technological history to hold him up on the same pedestal.
Kasey Steinbrinck, you have done a great job presenting both sides of the coin. Please ignore the ones who are convinced on what they believe in and unwilling to even give a benefit of doubt to Mr. But, his credentials and projects undertaken during irrespective of his beliefs and what he is doing today does at least support his contribution to the history of email invention.
Thanks, Ina. I think email is one of those innovations that was inevitable because it was something that was needed and made so much sense. What separates What Ray did from the telegraph? Digitalization and storage? It was still the domain of geeks, since most people preferred the telephone. The massive breadth of populations using email regularly can be attributed, in large part, to its accessibility and general usefulness.
Users of MIT computers could leave messages with this program on computers at the university for other users, who would see the messages the next time they logged on to the computer.
The system was quite effective, but only if the people wishing to communicate with each other were regularly using the same computer. The concept of nearly instantaneous communication between machines within an organization proved to be so beneficial and practical that the concept soon began to spread.
However, with the advent of internal networks the protocols for sending messages became more complex. When sending a message from one computer to another within a network, how would one indicate where the message was intended to go?
The medium had proved so useful that ideas were beginning to spring up about how one might be able to send an electronic mail message to a user on a computer outside of an internal network. How would you react if your financial adviser tried to sell you a U. Treasury yielding 7.
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Dow 30 36, Nasdaq 15, Russell 2, Crude Oil Gold 1, Silver From humble internal communications beginnings, email now dominates a vast proportion of everyday life. An estimated 4. How did email grow from messages between academics to a global epidemic?
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