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            For my assignment, I explored the origins of Email. In looking at this, there are two names that you will find. The first is Ray Tomlinson. Tomlinson is known as the "Father of Email." The other is Shiva Ayyadurai. The first we will look into is Ray Tomlinson.     
    
    In looking into Ray Tomlinson's time in the world of email, there are two sources his timeline will come from. 

“A Brief History of Email: Dedicated to Ray Tomlinson.” Phrasee, 1 Oct. 2020, phrasee.co/a-brief-history-of-email/.

Jackson, Nicholas. “Infographic: Evolution of Email.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 9 May 2011, www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/infographic-evolution-of-email/238587/.

 The first point on the timeline was in 1965 when Email was first introduced at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). It was seen on a program that was called "MAILBOX." 

In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent the first email. He did this by creating ARPANET's networked email system. 

In 1977, the United States Postal Service started to see email as a potential threat to their business, due to it taking away from their mail volume. 

In 1982, the term "email" started being used. 

In 1988, Microsoft Mail was released for the Mac. This was the first successful email product. 

In the early 1990s spam started to appear in email.

In 2007, Google made Gmail available for public use. 

In 2011, the Associated Press Stylebook changed "e-mail" to "email." 


    Moving on to Shiva Ayyadurai, and his claim to email, Ayyadurai wrote an email program in 1978. In 1981, he copyrighted the program and called it EMAIL. Ayyadurai has continued to make his claim to email as recently as 2012. 

    As much as Shiva Ayyadurai has the claim to creating the program, EMAIL, the creation of what is universally known as email belongs to Ray Tomlinson. 

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